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One dead as Typhoon Hagibis prompts emergency warning in Japan
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One dead as Typhoon Hagibis prompts emergency warning in Japan

Powerful Typhoon Hagibis on Saturday claimed its first victim even before making landfall, as Japanese weather authorities issued a top-level…
Japan braces for powerful Typhoon Hagibis
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Japan braces for powerful Typhoon Hagibis

Japan braced on Friday for a powerful typhoon barreling towards Tokyo that has already forced the cancellation of two Rugby…
Japan roboticists predict rise of the machines
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Japan roboticists predict rise of the machines

Set in 2019, cult 80s movie “Blade Runner” envisaged a neon-stained landscape of bionic “replicants” genetically engineered to look just…
Japan foreign minister expresses concern over global economy from attacks on Saudi
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Japan foreign minister expresses concern over global economy from attacks on Saudi

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Monday that he agreed with US Secretary of State Mike…
Japan’s Abe shakes up cabinet, brings in rising star
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Japan’s Abe shakes up cabinet, brings in rising star

Japan’s Shinzo Abe Wednesday appointed new foreign and defence ministers and promoted a popular rising political star, in a cabinet…
‘Protecting rapists’: Protesters accuse Japan of failing women
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‘Protecting rapists’: Protesters accuse Japan of failing women

Women’s rights protesters are taking to the streets for the sixth time in as many months as anger mounts in…
Two dead, travel chaos, after powerful typhoon pummels Tokyo
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Two dead, travel chaos, after powerful typhoon pummels Tokyo

A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight with record winds killed two people, police said Monday, as cancelled trains caused…
Crisis-hit Nissan CEO set to resign as board meets
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Crisis-hit Nissan CEO set to resign as board meets

The CEO of crisis-hit Japanese automaker Nissan plans to resign, reports said Monday, as the firm’s board meets to discuss…
Letter threatening to hunt Koreans sent to South Korean embassy in Japan: media
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Letter threatening to hunt Koreans sent to South Korean embassy in Japan: media

TOKYO (Reuters) – A letter threatening to hunt Koreans and containing what appeared to be a bullet has been sent…
Ghosn’s lawyer says Tokyo prosecutor lacks impartiality
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Ghosn’s lawyer says Tokyo prosecutor lacks impartiality

The French lawyer of former auto titan Carlos Ghosn, currently under house arrest in Tokyo, has attacked Japanese prosecutors for…
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