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A Tokyo council voted on Tuesday to issue “partnership” certificates to gay couples, the first such recognition of same-sex unions in Japan. Assembly members...
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The UN Human Rights Council on Friday strongly criticised North Korea for the “systematic abduction” of foreigners, after a UN investigation found the country...
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The tsunami barrier construction program was announced just a few months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March, 2011, resulting in...
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The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan pledged to set up a trilateral leadership summit at “the earliest” opportunity as they met...
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The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan met for the first time in nearly three years in Seoul on Saturday, in an...
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Shinzo Abe is expected to become the first Japanese prime minister to address a joint session of the US Congress next month, crowning a...
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DeNA is an online Japanese mobile gaming platform founded in 1999. The company will work with Nintendo to “develop a new core system” that...
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Of the 476 passengers that were on the boat, most were high school aged children, and 304 did not survive. The shipping company received...
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Women are far more exposed to disasters than men given their frontline roles in the home and in healthcare, the UN says, arguing that...
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Policymakers gathered for a ten-yearly meeting on disaster risk reduction Saturday, with hopes high that the conference in tsunami-hit Japan might provide a springboard...