For the second time in a year, a struggling Japanese prime minister has unexpectedly quit, leaving the country politically adrift as it struggles to deal with a deadlocked parliament and worsening economy.
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In the Netherlands and Canada, it was old news.
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North Korea agreed Friday to reopen investigations into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by its spy service in the 1970s and ’80s, breaking with past assertions that the abductees were dead and the issue was closed.
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“I’m going to kill people in Akihabara.
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TOKYO – Any actor planning to play Genghis Khan in a big-screen film had better carry himself with more than just a hint of presence.
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A lone attacker rammed a truck into pedestrians, then slashed his way with a survival knife through Sunday shopping crowds in one of Tokyo’s most popular neighborhoods, killing seven people and wounding 10.
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The Japanese have perfected the art of obsession.
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The food shortage that has hit Japan is announced by the glaring gap on supermarket shelves next to the margarine and the sour cream and just above the cheese.
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The food shortage that has hit Japan is announced by the glaring gap on supermarket shelves next to the margarine and the sour cream and just above the cheese.
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Monsoon winds and rain were predicted on Wednesday to whip through Myanmar’s Irrawaddy River delta, compounding the misery for at least 1.6 million survivors of this month’s deadly cyclone and spawning fresh appeals from the international community for immediate access to the disaster zone.
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