Japanese high schoolers win World Robot Olympiad

Japanese high schoolers win World Robot Olympiad

A group of high schoolers from Japan win this year's World Robot Olympiad.

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Tsutenkaku Tower welcomes year of the rooster

Tsutenkaku Tower welcomes year of the rooster

Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower marks the handover from the year of the monkey to the year of the rooster.

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Rider stands up while driving

Rider stands up while driving

A video of someone standing up while driving a motorbike was posted on twitter.

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Japanese Government restarts Okinawa landfill work

Japanese Government restarts Okinawa landfill work

The Japanese government restarts construction work to move a US Military base to Henoko, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Prime Minister Abe in Hawaii

Prime Minister Abe in Hawaii

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Hawaii for the Pearl Harbor visit.

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Fukushima father finds daughter's remains

Fukushima father finds daughter's remains

A man's search for the remains of his 7-year-old daughter ends as he learns that she died in the Great East Japan Earthq...

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Japan-US to limit immunity of base workers

Japan-US to limit immunity of base workers

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan and the U.S. agree in principle to narrow the scope of legal immunity...

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Post-blaze recovery as main street reopens

Post-blaze recovery as main street reopens

Itoigawa's main thoroughfare reopens and residents begin picking up the pieces of their lives five days after a blaze gu...

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'Tis the season...for giant rice cakes

'Tis the season...for giant rice cakes

A town in central Japan carries on a "big" tradition of making rice cakes to ring in an auspicious new year.

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Probe begins as firefighters snuff last flames

Probe begins as firefighters snuff last flames

Firefighters snuff the last flames as a probe is launched into a massive blaze that consumed 150 buildings in Itoigawa, ...

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