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Activists demand stop to Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh

Climate campaigners said the project contradicts Japan's commitment, made with other wealthy G7 nations last May, to end funding for "unabated" coal power overseas by ...
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A year after Myanmar coup, families of detainees search for answers

Activists and families say many have disappeared since Myanmar was plunged into turmoil after the military overthrew the elected government led by Aung San Suu ...
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Tsunami models underestimated shockwave from Tonga eruption

Forecasting models and warning systems, designed primarily to assess earthquake-triggered waves, did not account for the boosting effects of the shockwave.
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Activists demand stop to Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh

Climate campaigners said the project contradicts Japan's commitment, made with other wealthy G7 nations last May, to end funding for "unabated" coal power overseas by ...
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Number of at-home COVID-19 patients in Japan up 14-fold in two weeks

Highlighting the concern, government data showed nearly 40% of people who tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this month contracted the virus at home.
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Japan weighs deploying U.S. spy drones to MSDF base in Kyushu

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said that the government was considering the temporary deployment of U.S. MQ-9 unmanned surveillance aircraft to an SDF base for the ...
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Suspect in Saitama hostage standoff had hoped to kill himself and medical team

The man, 66, has suggested that he intended to die by suicide after killing his mother's doctor, who he blamed for her death, police sources ...
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Japan cuts quarantine for those entering country from 10 days to seven

Japan's business community, among others, had called for the period to be shortened by taking into account the omicron variant's characteristics.
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British PM Boris Johnson eyeing mid-February visit to Japan

The two leaders are likely to discuss ways to enhance security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, where China has become increasingly assertive in its territorial claims.
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Mao’s favored ‘red flag’ car seeks a new audience in Japan

China FAW Group Co., the carmaker whose luxury Hongqi model was used to transport Chairman Mao Zedong, has opened its first showroom in the country.