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CNN
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Japan's top whaling ship returned to port Tuesday, leading a fleet that killed just 55 percent of its season target of 1,000 whales amid violent protests in the Antarctic. The Nisshin Maru made a special stop in Tokyo so the coast guard could inspect it f..
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BBC News
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Another US military serviceman has been detained over an alleged sexual assault on Japan's southern island of Okinawa.
In the latest of a string of incidents involving US troops, the man is accused of raping a Filipino woman at a hotel.
The alleged..
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CNN
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Condemnations rang out from several corners in Japan Tuesday after a 38-year-old U.S. Marine was accused of raping a 14-year-old local girl on the southern island of Okinawa. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda deplored the incident as "unforgivable" and Okinawa..
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CNN
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Mention a dolphin to someone in the United States and they'll think about a trip to Sea World, maybe, or Flipper, the dolphin that was the star of the mid-1960s TV show. Talk about a dolphin in rural Japan and some people think of supper.
Fishermen hun..
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USA Today
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A powerful earthquake toppled drums of nuclear waste and triggered other problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, raising the possibility of a second radioactive leak there, Japanese officials said Tuesday.
The earthquake Monday off the Japanes..
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BBC News
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Japanese officials have confirmed further leaks of radioactive material from a nuclear power plant following Monday's earthquake in central Japan.
In addition to a leak of radioactive water, drums containing nuclear waste burst open and radioactive gas..
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CNN
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A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a radioactive water leak and fire at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants and turning buildings into piles of lumber. At least eight people were killed and hundreds injured...
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BBC News
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Japan's Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma has resigned amid a furore over comments he made about the US atom bomb attacks on Japan during World War II.
His apology, and a public rebuke from PM Shinzo Abe, failed to quell anger over his remarks that the bomb..
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Al Jazeera
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There is a real possibility we will review at a fundamental level our role in the IWC and this would include withdrawing, setting up a new organization," said Akira Nakamae, Japan's top delegate after the meeting ended.
He said Tokyo would also consid..
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CNN
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The world should aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 as part of a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday.
Abe, who plans to present his idea at the Group of Eight summit i..
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CNN
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A teenage boy holding a severed head appeared at a police station in northern Japan on Tuesday, saying he killed his mother, an official said.
The 17-year-old boy turned up at the police station in Aizu Wakamatsu city in Fukushima prefecture (state) Tu..
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BBC News
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Japan has deployed a mobile defensive missile system near Tokyo for the first time to try to protect the capital in the event of a missile attack.
The Patriot missiles have come into service a year earlier than planned, after North Korea's firing of mi..
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CNN
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Aftershocks shook central Japan's coast on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least one person and injured 193 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast.
One of the aftershocks h..
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CNN
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A powerful earthquake struck Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 150 others as it damaged buildings and triggered a small tsunami along the coast, officials and media reports said.
The magnitude-6.9 quake struck at 9:42 a.m. (0042..
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BBC News
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A dwindling birth rate is expected to cut Japan's population by 30% over the next 50 years, a survey by the government has said...
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Yahoo News
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to rewrite the country's post-World War II pacifist constitution while he is in office...
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BBC News
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Japan is to partially lift sanctions against North Korea after it agreed to conduct a new probe into the issue of abducted Japanese nationals.
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a ban on charter flights and travel between the two sides would be lift..
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SF Gate
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Dozens of Japanese lawmakers paid respects Tuesday at a war shrine seen by Asian neighbors as an antagonistic symbol of Tokyo's militaristic past, one day after leaders of Japan and South Korea urged an end to disputes over their history.
Eight top gov..
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BBC News
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Japan's whaling fleet has failed to catch its quota, after being disrupted by clashes with anti-hunting activists.
The fisheries agency said the fleet caught 60% of the minke whales they had planned - 551 from a target of 850.
The ships, which were..
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SF Gate
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Japanese lawmakers endorsed acting Bank of Japan chief Masaaki Shirakawa as its new governor Wednesday, ending a power vacuum at the central bank's helm by approving the government's third candidate for the job.
But the opposition-controlled upper hous..
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