ALERT:Typhoon Shanshan affects transportation across Japan

ALERT:Typhoon Shanshan affects transportation across Japan

Japan Airlines announced on August 27 that it cancelled 45 flights to and from Kagoshima Airport and Amami Oshima Island...

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Meteorological Agency issues heavy rain warnings for Shizuoka Prefecture

Meteorological Agency issues heavy rain warnings for Shizuoka Prefecture

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a warning on August 27 that a linear precipitation zone may develop in Shizuoka P...

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SMILE-UP. announces new company to handle fan club business

SMILE-UP. announces new company to handle fan club business

SMILE-UP., the company formerly known as Johnny & Associates, announced on August 26 that it has spun off its fan club b...

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Children with disabilities attend esports event

Children with disabilities attend esports event

An esports event was held in Tokyo on August 24 for children with disabilities. Children with mobility difficulties par...

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Utsunomiya's LRT celebrates its first anniversary

Utsunomiya's LRT celebrates its first anniversary

The first anniversary of the opening of the tramway called LRT in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture north of Tokyo wa...

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Limestone cave in northeastern Japan reopens after typhoon causes

Limestone cave in northeastern Japan reopens after typhoon causes

Limestone cave Ryusendo in northeastern Japan closed on August 12 due to the effects of Typhoon Maria, known as Typhoon ...

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ALERT Powerful Typhoon Shanshan approaching Japan -Bullet trains can be suspended

ALERT Powerful Typhoon Shanshan approaching Japan -Bullet trains can be suspended

A powerful typhoon is approaching Japan and on course to traverse the archipelago from the southwest to the northeast. J...

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Kishida inspects Fukushima one year after start of water release

Kishida inspects Fukushima one year after start of water release

A year ago, Tokyo Electric Power Company began releasing treated and diluted water from its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear po...

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Crown Prince and family attend international conference on insects

Crown Prince and family attend international conference on insects

Crown Prince Fumihito and his wife Crown Princess Kiko attended the opening ceremony of the International Congress of En...

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How Japan is accommodating increasing foreign nationals including children

How Japan is accommodating increasing foreign nationals including children

  ”Summer Break Study Session" for students with foreign roots in Ibaraki Prefecture  Photo provided by Hitachinaka Inte...

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