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The Japan News

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New whaling mother ship sets out on first expedition; to catch whales off Tohoku, Hokkaido

The new ship, the Kangei Maru, is owned by Kyodo Senpaku Co., the world’s only mothership whaling operator. It sailed from its base at Shimonoseki Port on the western tip of…

  • Published: May 23, 20247:09 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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798 people renew Guinness record for biggest teppanyaki cook out

The participants grilled teppanyaki lamb, a dish known as 'jingisukan.'

  • Published: May 21, 202412:56 pm
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Japan, South Korea in talks to resume defence exchanges

The bilateral defence exchanges have been suspended in the wake of the incident where a South Korean Navy ship directed its fire-control radar at a Maritime Self-Defense Force…

  • Published: May 21, 20248:40 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Securing Imperial Family members: Grave political responsibility to maintain system

The Imperial House Law limits the Imperial succession to male offspring of the male line. For the situation in which the Imperial family becomes unable to maintain itself,…

  • Published: May 21, 20247:55 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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A ‘drifting’ postbox for letters to people who died in the 2011 Japan Earthquake kept running

So far, the postbox has received more than 1,000 letters saying such things as: “I wish I could meet you in my dreams” and “I always think of you.”

  • Published: May 20, 20248:28 am
  • Author Kotaro Hirose
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Temperatures soar to midsummer levels across Japan

The Tokyo metropolitan area experienced a hot day, with the temperature in Chiyoda Ward in central Tokyo rising to 28.8 C, the highest this year at that location.

  • Published: May 20, 20248:03 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Japan’s regional confections head abroad in box subscription

The boxes are provided by ICHIGO, a company based in Tokyo, that offers three other varieties of box services and delivers to about 180 countries and regions, but mainly to the US…

  • Published: May 20, 20248:00 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Three Japanese carmakers eye joint software development

At a time when U.S. and Chinese automakers are striding ahead in digitisation technologies for electric vehicles, the three Japanese vehicle manufacturers aim to adopt a…

  • Published: May 17, 202412:26 pm
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Mt. Fuji’s peak glows orange in ‘Diamond Fuji’ phenomenon

Diamond Fuji will gradually move south and west along the city’s coastline and can be seen from National Park Resort Kyukamura Tateyama on May 15; from Sunosaki Lighthouse on…

  • Published: May 17, 202412:01 pm
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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AI lends medicine helping hand, but doctors wary of variation in diagnosis

A study made public last September by a team at Tokyo Medical and Dental University highlighted the inconsistency of ChatGPT’s answers.

  • Published: May 17, 202410:28 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun

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