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00:13

JR Tokai Sets Up Female-Only Bathrooms on Shinkansen

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2024/12/13

Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, said Friday that it will change about half of the unisex bathrooms on Shinkansen bullet trains to female-only facilities, in light of a rise in the number of female passengers.

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00:15

Hidankyo Delegation Returns Home after Nobel Award...

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2024/12/13

A delegation from the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, returned home on Friday after receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize at the award ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Tuesday.

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00:12

Japan Ruling Bloc Proposes 1.23-M.-Yen Tax Threshold

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2024/12/13

Japan's ruling coalition on Friday proposed that the minimum annual taxable income be raised from the current 1.03 million yen to 1.23 million yen, starting next year.

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00:17

INTERVIEW: Ishiba May Visit U.S. in Feb. at Earliest

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2024/12/13

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may visit the United States in February at the earliest to hold his first meeting with Donald Trump, who will return to the White House in January, Akihisa Nagashima, special adviser to Ishiba, said in an interview with Jiji Press on Friday.

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00:14

Ishiba to Visit Fukushima N-Plant on Sat.

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2024/12/13

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he will visit Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Saturday.

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00:13

Shizuoka Aims to Collect 4,000 Yen from Mt. Fuji...

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2024/12/13

The Shizuoka prefectural government Friday unveiled the outline of a draft ordinance calling for collecting 4,000 yen per person from those climbing Mount Fuji from the central Japan prefecture, starting next summer.

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00:13

U.S. Airman Sentenced to 5 Years for Sexual Assault...

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2024/12/13

Naha District Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old U.S. airman to five years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting an underage girl in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, in December last year.

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00:12

Japan High Court Finds Same-Sex Marriage Denial...

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2024/12/13

Fukuoka High Court ruled Friday that Japan's Civil Code and other provisions that do not recognize same-sex marriage are unconstitutional as they violate the right to pursue happiness, among other reasons.

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00:10

2nd-Generation Hibakusha's Appeal for State...

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2024/12/13

Hiroshima High Court turned down second-generation hibakusha's appeal for state compensation on Friday, upholding a ruling by Hiroshima District Court.

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00:15

Opening Ethics Panel Hearings to Media "One...

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2024/12/13

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that holding hearings of a parliamentary political ethics panel in a way that is open to the media is "one method" of allaying public suspicions about a slush funds scandal involving his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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00:14

JR Kyushu May Withdraw from Japan-S. Korea Ship Route

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2024/12/13

Kyushu Railway Co., or JR Kyushu, is considering withdrawing from a ship route between Japan and South Korea, over a scandal in which a subsidiary covered up a water leak incident on a high-speed passenger ship, it was learned Friday.

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00:13

"Kodomo Shokudo" Kids'...

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2024/12/13

The number of "kodomo shokudo" cafeterias providing meals mainly to needy children for free or at low prices in Japan surpassed 10,000 for the first time, a survey by a nonprofit organization has shown.

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00:16

Ruling Bloc Defers Decision on Defense-Linked Income...

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2024/12/13

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, have agreed to postpone deciding when to raise income tax to secure funding for higher defense expenditures, Yoichi Miyazawa, chair of the LDP's tax panel, said Friday.

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00:11

Japan Emperor, Empress to Visit Disaster-Hit Noto for...

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2024/12/13

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are set to visit the city of Wajima on the Noto Peninsula on Tuesday to meet people affected by massive rain in September.

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00:10

U.N. Designates Aug. 27 as World Lake Day

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2024/12/13

The United Nations on Thursday designated Aug. 27 as World Lake Day to promote environmental conservation and sustainable development of lakes and reservoirs.

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00:10

Japan Big Makers' Sentiment Up in Dec. BOJ Tankan

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2024/12/13

Business sentiment among large manufacturers in Japan improved for the first time in two quarters, the Bank of Japan's "tankan" survey for December showed Friday.

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00:10

20 in Tokyo Assembly LDP Underreported Fundraising...

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2024/12/12

Around 20 members of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly were found to have omitted some revenues from fundraising parties in their political funds reports.

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00:10

ANA Launches Aircraft with Osaka Expo Livery

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2024/12/12

All Nippon Airways on Thursday launched an airplane with a special livery to commemorate the 2025 World Exposition to be held in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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00:13

Seibu to Sell Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho to Blackstone

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2024/12/12

Seibu Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it will sell Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, a large commercial building built on a former hotel site in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, to U.S. investment firm Blackstone Inc.

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00:10

Sake Stakeholder Summit Held in Washington

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2024/12/12

The Sake Stakeholder Summit was held in Washington on Wednesday, bringing together people involved in the brewing, distribution and retail of Japanese sake in North America.

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