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The number of HIV carriers newly confirmed in 2023 in Japan rose by 37 from the previous year to 669, the first increase in seven years, the health ministry has said.
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Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force has announced punishments of two officers for power harassment, or workplace bullying by people in senior positions.
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North Korea will reject any contact and negotiations with Japan, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday.
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Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visited Ise Jingu in Mie Prefecture on Tuesday to report her graduation from Gakushuin University, on her first solo trip outside of Tokyo.
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Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are expected to visit the central prefecture of Ishikawa again next month to meet people affected by a powerful earthquake that struck on New Year's Day, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi on Tuesday met with a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma Inc. who has been detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of espionage, diplomatic sources said.
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A record 18pctof people in Japan said they were victims of verbal or physical abuse by their partners, according to a Cabinet Office survey released Tuesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Tuesday began two-day questioning of former senior members of the LDP's largest faction, once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and deeply involved in a high-profile money scandal.
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Tokyo District Court on Tuesday ordered the head of the Japan branch of the controversial religious organization Unification Church to pay a fine of 100,000 yen for the group's refusal to answer some questions put to it by the culture ministry.
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The average land price in Japan as of Jan. 1 rose 2.3pctfrom a year before, growing for the third successive year, a land ministry survey showed Tuesday.
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Japan's Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling that rejected a claim by the same-sex partner of a murder victim over survivor benefits for the bereaved families of crime victims.
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Japanese police and others on Tuesday warned software development companies and related industry groups about North Korean information technology engineers passing themselves off as Japanese nationals.
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Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a former teacher at Tokyo cram school Yotsuya Otsuka Inc. to two years in prison, suspended for five years, for secret filming of girls attending the school.
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About 70pctof major companies in Japan have introduced internships that may directly lead to employment, a Jiji Press questionnaire survey has shown.
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A consumer who was continuously buying a supplement containing "beni koji" red fermented rice made by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. has died of kidney disease, the Japanese company said Tuesday.
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A hot spring bath facility in a central Japan city hit hard by the Jan. 1 massive earthquake reopened on Tuesday, nearly three months after the disaster, bringing comfort to local residents.
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Japan on Tuesday decided to allow exports of the finished product form of defense equipment jointly developed with other countries to third nations, making another major shift in security policy.
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The number of foreigners seeking refugee status in Japan in 2023 surged 3.7-fold from the previous year to 13,823, the second highest on record after 19,629 in 2017, the Immigration Services Agency said Tuesday.
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Hitoshi Matsumoto of the popular Japanese comic duo Downtown has issued a statement through his lawyers ahead of the first court hearing on Thursday in a lawsuit he filed against a weekly magazine publisher over his alleged forcible sexual activity with a woman.
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Eleven high school students from a Hawaii community devastated by wildfires last August have learned about postdisaster reconstruction during their week-long visit to northeastern Japan areas hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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