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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jun 21, 2017
Deafening silence from U.S. government as Okinawa defoliants quietly destroy children's futures
Lt. Col. Kris E. Roberts, who found dozens of barrels of hazardous waste buried at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in 1981, reflects on the consequences of that discovery.
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JAPAN
Jun 21, 2017
Foreign visitors to Japan reach 2.29 million, a record for May
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan reached 2,294,700 last month, up 21.2 percent from a year earlier, the highest number ever for the month of May, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 21, 2017
Which members of the Abe Cabinet deserve to be fired?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has multiple reasons to pick this moment for a Cabinet reshuffle.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2017
Trump says China efforts on North Korea haven't 'worked out'
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that efforts by China to rein in North Korea have failed, suggesting he's weighing new options to deal with a regime that's vowed to develop nuclear weapons capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
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JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Jun 21, 2017
Japanese researchers collect first-person accounts of experiences with disease
When you have a health problem, there's a story that only you — not your doctor or family — can tell.
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JAPAN
Jun 21, 2017
First woman to head regional Japan Coast Guard office focused on the mission, not her novelty
The first woman to head a regional Japan Coast Guard office said she hopes she can live up to people's expectations and that her sex should have no bearing on her ability to carry out her duties.
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BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2017
In Tokyo, Guinean President Alpha Conde calls for investment by Japanese firms
Guinean President Alpha Conde called on Japanese companies Tuesday to boost investment in his country, emphasizing the "potential" of the growing African nation with a young population.
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JAPAN
Jun 20, 2017
Japan eyes U.S. nuclear pact that renews automatically amid Trump administration vacancies
Japan will seek a nuclear energy pact with the United States that renews automatically while it continues reprocessing spent fuel and enriching uranium, government sources said Tuesday.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 20, 2017
U.S. sends bombers to drill with Japan, South Korea as Moon lambastes North over Warmbier death
The U.S. Air Force sent two B-1B strategic bombers stationed on Guam on a wide-ranging flight for joint drills with the Air Self-Defense Force and South Korea's military Tuesday, just hours after the death of a former U.S. detainee in North Korea was announced.
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BASKETBALL
Jun 20, 2017
Japan women ousted at FIBA 3x3 World Cup
The Japan women's team was sent to an early pool stage exit Monday at the FIBA 3x3 World Cupe, just weeks after the event was added to the 2020 Olympic program.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 19, 2017
Why the prime minister still loves Trump
There are significant incentives — commercial, security and more — for Japan to maintain a strong relationship with the U.S.
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JAPAN
Jun 19, 2017
First visitation flight to disputed isles off Hokkaido canceled over poor weather
Two days of bad weather forced the cancellation Monday of what was to have been the first chartered flight by former residents to visit Kunashiri and Etorofu, two of the four Russia-held islands off northeastern Hokkaido claimed by Japan.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2017
Japan Post scraps Nomura Real Estate acquisition plan after postal group's FY 2016 loss
Japan Post Holdings and Nomura Real Estate Holdings have apparently failed to agree a purchase price and other terms.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jun 18, 2017
Japan-EU trade deal in sight as gaps narrow on autos, farm produce
Japan and the European Union are in the final phase of wrapping up a wide-ranging agreement on free trade, seeking to strike deals on issues such as access to the agriculture and automobile markets.
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JAPAN
Jun 18, 2017
U.S. Navy confirms deaths of all seven missing USS Fitzgerald crew
A search for seven missing U.S. sailors is called off after bodies were found aboard the badly damaged USS Fitzgerald following a collision with a Philippine-flagged container vessel.
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MORE SPORTS
Jun 18, 2017
Hirano vows to face up to Chinese challenge
It was a cruel reality check for Miu Hirano as her surging run of form came to a shuddering end in the Japan Open quarterfinals, but the 17-year-old vowed to rebuild her game to again challenge China's top players.
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MORE SPORTS
Jun 18, 2017
Seagulls quarterback Woolsey working to help team return to glory
The X League has become a more quarterback-driven circuit with the influx of Americans signal-callers in recent years.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 18, 2017
Their lives disrupted, South Korean grannies vow to fight U.S. THAAD deployment to the end
In Soseong-ri, a small farming village of about 80 residents in southern South Korea, a band of elderly women is at the forefront of protests against the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system next to their neighborhood.
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JAPAN
Jun 18, 2017
Former residents' trip to disputed Russian-held isles postponed
A homecoming trip scheduled for former Japanese residents of the Russian-controlled islands off Hokkaido was postponed Sunday due to poor weather, government officials said.
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2017
Another radiation exposure accident
A radiation exposure accident in Oarai, Ibaraki, highlights once again the lack of safety consciousness on the part of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and its predecessor.

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals