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"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act," U.S. President Barack Obama pronounced in Prague on Sunday in a speech in which he called for "the peace and security of a world without...
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The House of Representatives adopted a resolution at a plenary session Tuesday afternoon condemning North Korea for launching a long-rage ballistic missile. The ruling coalition comprised of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, the largest...
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Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba held an impromptu press conference on Monday to praise the speech given by U.S. President Barack Obama in Prague in which he indicated his strong commitment to the abolition of nuclear weapons. The mayor said he...
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KYOTO -- Kyoto police have arrested a man serving time for robbery over the murder of a 15-year-old girl who was found dead in a forest last May. Katsumi Naka, 60, who is currently serving a robbery sentence, was transferred from a prison early...
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More than 1,000 foreign trainees involved in government programs were forced to return home as sponsor companies have been suffering from the deteriorating economy, a government survey has revealed. According to the survey held by the Justice...
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The injection of two of three anti-flu vaccines at certain intervals, which have been developed in preparation for an outbreak of a new type of flu, are effective in preventing flu symptoms from becoming serious, a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry...
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A diplomat has been warned for falsely reporting that a Japanese consultant was present at two meals in Germany he attended last year, which were covered by public funds, Foreign Ministry officials said. In addition to the 34-year-old first...
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OSAKA -- Two men have been arrested on suspicion of running a massive marijuana growing operation out of a three-story building in Osaka, police announced Monday. Police arrested Yujiro Sato, 27, and Taketsugu Nakanishi, 37, on suspicion of...
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A common-law couple will likely lose a case against Tokyo's Setagaya Ward over their daughter's resident registration. Presiding Judge Isao Imai of the Supreme Court's second petty bench set April 17 as the judgment day for the case that the...
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A woman in her 60s who took part as an extra in the shooting of an NHK TV program on how to prevent bone fractures actually broke her wrist, it's been learned. NHK said Monday that the accident happened in the middle of March, during the...
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Eight clinical psychotherapists, most of them working as counselors at homes for children who cannot live with their parents, have formed a labor union in a bid to increase their wages, union members said. They formed the union under the...
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A third-year elementary school student has become the youngest visitor at Yawaragi no Yu, a hot spring in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, known for its radioactive hot rock spa, in hopes that it will help to alleviate her brain cancer. Nanako...
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L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) -- Rescuers worked frantically in this central Italian city early Tuesday, scooping through piles of rubble with their hands in the search for survivors after the country's deadliest earthquake in nearly three decades. Tens...
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MEXICO CITY -- Former Cuban President Fidel Castro said Thursday that Cuban baseball is lagging behind in its training methods, following Cuba's second-round exit from the World Baseball Classic, and that the one-time baseball kingdom should model...
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Gas stations across Japan are rushing to fix digital signs that can't display gasoline prices higher than 199 yen per liter amid predictions that the price will climb to the 200 yen mark, industry insiders say. Officials say the change is likely...
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NARITA, Chiba -- Smoke came out of an Aeroflot passenger jet that landed at Narita Airport on Saturday, prompting a brief closure of the runway, aviation officials said. Flight 581 from Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport landed at...
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OSAKA -- A 24-year-old woman who was left without family register records because her mother didn't register her birth has obtained a resident's card for the first time. Officials from a family association to support children without family...
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SAPPORO -- Sewing needles have been found stuck in two apples sold at a supermarket here, police said. At around 9:35 p.m. on Friday, police received a report from a supermarket that needles were found stuck in apples sold at the store in...
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YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- The new commander of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet assumed his post overseeing the world's largest forward-deployed naval force in a ceremony Saturday at a port just south of Tokyo. U.S. Navy Vice Adm. John M. Bird was sworn...
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Services on two Tokyo subway lines were halted for about 50 minutes late Friday after their train operation systems developed trouble, the subway operator said. At around 10:55 p.m. on Friday, the train operation management system at the Tokyo...
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan will conduct its first test-firing of a land-to-air missile interceptor in the United States in September to ensure that a missile shield for the Japanese capital will function properly if it falls under attack, the Defense...
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Twelve high school students suffered heatstroke during the opening ceremony of a junior high school baseball tournament on a Tokyo riverbank on Saturday morning, rescue workers said. At around 9:50 a.m., a local fire station received an...
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KOCHI -- Telephone calls threatening to blow up a Kochi prefectural hall that is due to screen the controversial documentary "Yasukuni" on July 21 were made to the hall and the prefectural government headquarters, it has been learned....
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The parents of Kaoru Hasuike, a former abductee in North Korea who returned to Japan in 2002, have submitted a protest over comments made by former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Koichi Kato on the abduction issue, it has been learned....
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Japan's oldest koala has died at Tokyo's Tama Zoological Park at the age of 20 years and eight months, the equivalent of about 100 in human terms, zoo officials said. The koala, a male named Hikaru, died on Thursday evening officials said. The...
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MIAMI (AP) -- Rocky Aoki, who sought to offer diners a sense of magic and entertainment at his Japanese steakhouse Benihana, has died after complications from cancer. He was 69. Aoki, whose Benihana empire includes more than 100 restaurants...
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AOMORI -- Two members of environmental organization Greenpeace Japan have been indicted for stealing whale meat sent home by a crewmember of a research whaling ship. The Aomori District Public Prosecutors Office have charged Junichi Sato, 31,...
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AOMORI -- Coast guard officers raided the operator of a helicopter that crashed off Aomori Prefecture last weekend, killing its co-pilot and leaving three other people aboard missing, officials said. The Aomori Coast Guard Office searched the...
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CHIBA -- A naked dismembered torso was found floating in the sea at a port here Friday, police said. Local police believe the body is that of a young woman, and are trying to identify her prior to conducting an autopsy. They are also searching...
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A marriage consultation center operator accused of fixing up fake marriages between homeless men and South Korean women residing illegally in Japan has been arrested, police said. Hironaka Akiba, 62, the operator of the marriage consultation...
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a death sentence handed down on a man accused of murdering five people and injuring 10 others at JR Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture in a random attack in 1999. The top court thus dismissed an appeal...
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Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) police investigating a fire that broke out on a destroyer off Aomori Prefecture earlier this month have arrested a crewmember for starting the fire, officials said. Kazuhiro Kimura, 21, a leading seaman aboard...
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NEMURO, Hokkaido -- The first Hanasaki crab catch of the season was unloaded at Hanasaki Port here on Friday, after a ban on fishing for the crabs in coastal areas around the Nemuro Peninsula was lifted. Fishing boats that had laid their nets...
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The number of crimes recorded in Japan during the first six months of the year fell 5 percent from the same period the previous year to 879,208 cases, the sixth year in the row that the figure for the period has fallen, the National Police Agency...
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OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court has quashed a lower court ruling that cleared four central and local government bureaucrats of criminal responsibility for the death of a girl who was buried in 2001 after the surface of the man-made beach she was...
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A Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) officer was found dead in an empty swimming pool on the premises of a Tokyo home early Friday morning, police said. The man has been identified 49-year-old Col. Tadashi Usami. Local police suspect that Usami...
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YOKKAICHI, Mie -- An elementary school boy broke his arm after falling 2.5 meters through a school building's ceiling, police said. The accident occurred at Yokkaichi Municipal Mihama Elementary School at around 3:10 p.m. on Thursday after the...
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NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo -- A man was stabbed to death by an intruder in his apartment here apparently while his roommate was in the same room, according to police. Hyogo Prefectural Police received an emergency call from a man at around 4:45 a.m. on...
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OMA, Aomori -- Government inspectors believe extremely poor visibility caused by foggy conditions may have caused a helicopter to crash nose-first into the sea here last Sunday. Inspectors from the Aircraft and Railway Accident Investigation...
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NEYAGAWA, Osaka -- A woman accused of arson following a spate of suspicious fires here from last month has been arrested, police said. Noriko Sawa, 44, a former nurse and health care manager, was arrested on suspicion of arson of an inhabited...
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The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to limit sales of color contact lenses following a spate of eye injuries caused by the lenses, it has been learned. The ministry plans to revise a ministerial ordinance under the...
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A worker at a nuclear fuel processing company in Kanagawa Prefecture was exposed to radiation from a small amount of radioactive material, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced Thursday. The agency, operated by the Ministry of...
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Livedoor Holdings, an Internet giant implicated in a window-dressing scandal, faces about 1.26 billion yen in back taxes for failing to declare more than 3 billion yen in taxable income, sources close to the firm said. The Tokyo Regional...
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ASHIKAGA, Tochigi -- Six people were injured, some seriously, in a five-vehicle pileup on a street here Thursday morning, police said. At around 8:15 a.m. in Ashikaga, a car driven by a 49-year-old lumber dealer apparently hit a car at an...
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HIGASHIMATSUYAMA, Saitama -- More than two tons of flour, worth 270,000 yen, has been stolen from a wholesale company's warehouse here, police said. Investigators suspect that the thief stole the flour in a bid to resell it as flour prices have...
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Top Japanese physicist Yoji Totsuka, who earned recognition for discovering that elementary particles called neutrinos have mass, died of cancer early Wednesday. He was 66. Totsuka, who served as a special emeritus professor at the University of...
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Suntory took a 13.0 percent share in beer shipments in the first six months of 2008, surpassing Sapporo Breweries to secure the No. 3 spot behind Asahi Breweries and Kirin Brewery Co. for the first time, it has emerged. Suntory's move up in the...
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YOKOHAMA -- A high-ranking officer with the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) pleaded not guilty Thursday to leaking highly confidential information on an Aegis-equipped destroyer to a colleague. "I never thought that my actions would be...
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A construction worker who was swept down a river in Tokyo's Ota-ku on Tuesday after heavy rain caused the water level to suddenly rise was found dead on Wednesday, police said. The body of the 60-year-old worker, Yukio Satake, a resident of...
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OMA, Aomori -- The wreckage of a helicopter that crashed off a cape here was raised from the bottom of the sea on Thursday morning, officials said. The Osaka-based Ogawa Air Inc., which operated the helicopter, used a crane to raise the fuselage...
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