Japan's ruling coalition set to win over 300 seats in lower house election

Japan's ruling coalition set to win over 300 seats in lower house election

A total of 465 seats are up for grabs in the February 8 House of Representatives election.NNN and the Yomiuri Shimbun co...

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Taiwan's TSMC tells Takaichi it plans to mass produce cutting-edge chips in Kumamoto

Taiwan's TSMC tells Takaichi it plans to mass produce cutting-edge chips in Kumamoto

C.C. Wei, the chairman of Taiwan’s semiconductor giant TSMC, visited Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae at her offic...

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Tokyo court to decide on Unification Church dissolution order on March 4

Tokyo court to decide on Unification Church dissolution order on March 4

The Tokyo High Court is expected to decide in early March concerning whether to order the Unification Church to disband....

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Sapporo Snow Festival opens with sculptures of Dodgers Ohtani and Yamamoto

Sapporo Snow Festival opens with sculptures of Dodgers Ohtani and Yamamoto

The 76th Sapporo Snow Festival opened on February 4.This giant snow sculpture at the main Odori site features a prehisto...

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Former PM Abe shooter's defense appeals life sentence ruling

Former PM Abe shooter's defense appeals life sentence ruling

The defense team for Yamagami Tetsuya, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo,...

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Emperor shows Nepal's president photos from 1987 visit that sparked water advocacy

Emperor shows Nepal's president photos from 1987 visit that sparked water advocacy

On February 3, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako met with Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel and his wife at the Impe...

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$7 billion 'Dark Market' revealed: Illegal seller boasts fraud strategy and what is inside the illicit market, through international investigative reporting

$7 billion 'Dark Market' revealed: Illegal seller boasts fraud strategy and what is inside the illicit market, through international investigative reporting

Behind the rise in fraud cases in Japan lies a ‘dark market’ with a scale of 7 billion US dollars (1 trillion Japanese y...

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Resignation agency operators arrested for receiving illegal lawyer referral fees

Resignation agency operators arrested for receiving illegal lawyer referral fees

Tokyo police arrested the 37-year-old president of Albatross, the company that operates resignation agency Momuri, and h...

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Yen weakens further after PM Takaichi's remarks about currency market

Yen weakens further after PM Takaichi's remarks about currency market

On February 2, the yen was sold in the foreign exchange market, temporarily weakening to the mid-155 yen level per US do...

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Japan succeeds in recovering rare earth mud from seabed off Minamitorishima island

Japan succeeds in recovering rare earth mud from seabed off Minamitorishima island

Japan’s deep-sea scientific drilling vessel Chikyu has successfully recovered mud containing rare earths from the seabed...

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