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00:14

Japan Average Rice Price Falls for 4th Straight Week

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2025/10/18

The average price of rice sold at some 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through Sunday dropped 63 yen from the previous week to 4,142 yen per 5 kilograms, the agriculture ministry has said.

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00:10

Japan's 3 Megabanks to Jointly Issue Stablecoins

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2025/10/18

Japan's three megabanks are planning to jointly issue corporate-use stablecoins pegged to legal tender like the yen and the dollar, aiming to promote their use in the country.

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00:23

Baseball Legend Oh, 7 Others to Receive Order of Culture

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2025/10/18

The Japanese government decided Friday to award the Order of Culture for fiscal 2025 to eight people, including baseball legend Sadaharu Oh, 85, currently chairman of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks professional baseball team, and Susumu Kitagawa, 74, special professor at Kyoto University and recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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00:17

AZEC Ministers Affirm Importance of Financing for...

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2025/10/17

The 11-country Asia Zero Emission Community held a ministerial meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, affirming the importance of financing for decarbonization projects, such as the procurement of liquefied natural gas, which emits relatively low carbon dioxide when burned.

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00:11

German Authorities Remove "Comfort...

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2025/10/17

Authorities in a Berlin district said Friday that they have removed a statue symbolizing "comfort women," or those who worked as prostitutes for Japanese troops before and during World War II.

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00:09

Voices of Sadness over Murayama's Death Pour in...

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2025/10/17

Members of Japanese ruling and opposition parties expressed their sadness over the death of former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on Friday.

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00:12

78 Pct of Japan's Farmers to Keep or Raise Rice...

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2025/10/17

A total of 78pctof Japan's rice farmers said they plan to maintain or increase production of staple rice in five years, a Japanese agriculture ministry survey showed Friday.

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00:09

China, S. Korea Pay Tribute to Late Japan PM Murayama

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2025/10/17

China and South Korea paid tribute to former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who died on Friday at the age of 101.

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00:10

Nippon Ishin Sees Major Progress in Coalition Talks...

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2025/10/17

The leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 held their second round of policy talks on Friday to form a new coalition government.

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00:18

MOF Asked to Change Moritomo Documents Release Order

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2025/10/17

The widow of a Ministry of Finance official who committed suicide requested Friday that the ministry give priority to releasing email messages and other records identifying who had made her husband tamper with official documents regarding the dubious sale of a state-owned land plot to school operator Moritomo Gakuen.

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00:08

Japan Gives Water Level Buoy to Flood-Hit Taiwan

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2025/10/17

The Japanese government donated a water level observation buoy to Taiwan on Friday as part of disaster relief aid.

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00:14

Man Evaded Detection via Teacher Offense Database by...

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2025/10/17

A Japanese man arrested for using a forged teaching license changed his surname repeatedly through adoption, apparently to avoid being identified on a national register for teachers punished for child sex or other offenses, sources said Friday.

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00:11

Household Disaster Supplies in Japan Found Inadequate

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2025/10/17

Many Japanese households remain underprepared for disasters, with emergency toilets in short supply particularly, a survey released by the Cabinet Office on Friday showed.

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00:10

Body Found after Possible Bear Attack at Onsen...

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2025/10/17

A male body was found near where a bear was hunted in a wooded area in the northeastern Japan city of Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, at around 9 a.m. on Friday.

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00:11

Japan to Elect New Prime Minister on Tues.

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2025/10/17

Japan's ruling and opposition parties on Friday basically agreed to hold a parliamentary vote to appoint a new prime minister on Tuesday, the first day of a planned extraordinary session.

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00:15

Japan's Koizumi Vows to Block Eel Trade...

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2025/10/17

Japanese fisheries minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday that he will work to block the adoption of a proposal making all eel species, including the Japanese eel, subject to regulation under an international treaty to protect endangered species.

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00:13

LDP's Takaichi Makes Ritual Offering to Yasukuni...

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2025/10/17

Sanae Takaichi, president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, made a "tamagushi " ritual offering to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday, the first day of its autumn festival.

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00:15

Update) Ex-Japanese PM Murayama, Known for War...

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2025/10/17

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, one of the few Socialists ever to lead Japan and renowned for a landmark 1995 statement expressing remorse and apology for the nation's wartime actions, died on Friday. He was 101.

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00:13

Nippon Ishin Says Cutting Diet Seats Must for Coalition

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2025/10/17

The leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, Hirofumi Yoshimura, said Friday that cutting the number of lawmakers is a nonnegotiable condition for a possible coalition with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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00:07

Remains of Girl Returned to Family 14 Years after...

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2025/10/17

The remains of a six-year-old girl who was washed away by the March 2011 tsunami have been returned to her family.

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