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Gov't picks Windsor Hotel Toya's Nakamura as chief G-8 summit chef
National › 05:53 PM JST - 10th May
SAPPORO — The Foreign Ministry has selected Katsuhiro Nakamura, the executive chef of the Windsor Hotel Toya, the venue for July's Group of Eight summit, as chief…
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H5N1 bird flu detected in another dead swan in Hokkaido
National › 01:55 PM JST - 10th May
SAPPORO — The deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been detected in a dead swan found Monday beside Lake Saroma in eastern Hokkaido, the Hokkaido prefectural…
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Insecticide found mixed in canned coffee sold in Tokyo
National › 05:46 AM JST - 10th May
TOKYO — A can of coffee sold from a vending machine in Tokyo has been found to be mixed with insecticide, the health ministry said Friday. A…
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Drugstores to remove sulfur product in response to suicide attempts
National › 04:53 AM JST - 10th May
TOKYO — An industry association for drugstore chains decided Friday to urge its member stores to remove from their shelves a sulfur-containing product believed to have been…
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U.S. sounds out Japan to consider importing beef from cloned cows
National › 03:50 AM JST - 10th May
TOKYO — The United States has unofficially sounded out Japan about considering importing beef and processed food and dairy products from somatic cell-cloned cows and their offspring…
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Escalator at Nagoya subway suddenly stops, slightly injuring 11
National › 03:44 AM JST - 10th May
NAGOYA — An escalator at a Nagoya subway station suddenly stopped and briefly moved in the opposite direction on Friday morning, causing 11 people to sustain minor…
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Kit developed to quickly diagnose lethal bird flu virus in humans
National › 12:41 AM JST - 10th May
TOKYO — The International Medical Center of Japan said Friday that it has developed a diagnostic kit that can determine in 15 minutes if a person has…
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Japan to give additional $10 million aid to cyclone-hit Myanmar
National › 11:28 AM JST - 9th May
TOKYO — Japan decided Friday to give additional emergency aid of up to $10 million to cyclone hit-Myanmar through U.N. agencies and to offer the dispatch of…
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GSDF officer attempts suicide in front of Diet building
National › 06:31 AM JST - 9th May
TOKYO — A 20-year-old Ground Self-Defense Force officer tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself with a dagger in front of the Diet building Thursday evening, police…
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Green sea turtle migrates over 2,000 km from Guam to Okinawa
National › 01:51 AM JST - 9th May
NAHA — A green sea turtle has been found to have migrated more than 2,000 kilometers from around Guam to reach waters around a remote island in…
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Early warning system fails again as M6.7 quake hits Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama and Chiba
National › 02:49 PM JST - 8th May
TOKYO — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit extensive areas centering on the Kanto region including Tokyo in the early hours of Thursday injuring six…
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Yokosuka residents call for referendum on nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
National › 05:57 AM JST - 8th May
YOKOSUKA — A group of residents in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, filed a request Wednesday with Yokosuka Mayor Ryoichi Kabaya for a local referendum on whether to support…
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Japan drops to 31st in 'Mothers' Index'
National › 02:42 AM JST - 8th May
TOKYO — Japan was ranked 31st among 146 nations in an annual survey that helps document the best and worst places to be a mother, a nongovernmental…
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Kawasaki city ordered to pay Y4.9 bil over land pollution
National › 02:33 AM JST - 8th May
YOKOHAMA — The Environmental Dispute Coordination Commission ordered the municipal government of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday to pay some 4.88 billion yen to Tokyu Corp for…
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Sets of centenary coins for Japanese migration to Brazil on sale
National › 12:19 AM JST - 8th May
OSAKA — Japan Mint said Wednesday it has started to accept mail orders for a total of 142,000 sets of a 500 yen coin to commemorate the…
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Ueno Zoo visitors sign condolence book for panda
National › 03:18 PM JST - 7th May
TOKYO — More than 10,000 people have signed a book expressing their condolences for the recent death of Ling Ling, a male which was the only giant…
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Worker dies at explosion in Toyota Industries factory
National › 10:48 AM JST - 7th May
NAGOYA — A male worker died Wednesday after an explosion at a plant of Toyota Industries Corp in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, police said. The explosion took place…
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Kin see bodies of Japanese car collision victims in Bolivia
National › 09:03 AM JST - 7th May
LA PAZ — Relatives visited the bodies of five Japanese tourists Tuesday in Bolivia who are believed to have been killed in a two-car collision there May 1,…
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Van runs into McDonald's in Miyazaki, injuring 9
National › 05:49 AM JST - 7th May
MIYAZAKI — A van ran into a restaurant operated by McDonald's Co (Japan) Ltd on Tuesday at a supermarket in Miyazaki City, slightly injuring six children and…
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Japanese group signs to renovate John Manjiro's U.S. home into museum
National › 04:26 AM JST - 7th May
FAIRHAVEN, Massachusetts — A Japanese civic group signed a document Tuesday with local officials in the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, to renovate into a museum a house in…
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