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Ex-AIJ boss gets 15 years for pension fund fraud
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced Kazuhiko Asakawa, former president of AIJ Investment Advisors Co., to 15 years in prison for defraudin...
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Getting on swimmingly
Freshwater and saltwater fish swim together in a cylindrical aquarium containing water suitable for both kinds of fish in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture...
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Merkel starts 3rd term with new allies
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Pope shares birthday meal with homeless
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Exam-shy Harvard student accused of campus bomb hoax
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Blast hits near Hizbollah base
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Greece granted new loan
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Hagoita a hit
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Sis can’t stop Schild’s record-tying run
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Kobe lifts Lakers to victory
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Bayern cruises into Club World Cup final
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Merkel starts 3rd term with new allies
BERLIN (AP)—Angela Merkel has won over Germans once again.
The 59-year-old, no-drama leader has weathered turbulent economic times, firmly establishing Germany as Europe’s financial taskmaster ...
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Pope shares birthday meal with homeless
VATICAN CITY (AP)—Three homeless men, one of them carrying his dog, helped Pope Francis celebrate his 77th birthday Tuesday, joining him for Mass and breakfast and presenting him with a bouquet of ...
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Exam-shy Harvard student accused of campus bomb hoax
BOSTON (AP)—Bomb threats that led to the evacuations of four Harvard University campus buildings this week were made by a student trying to get out of taking a final exam, federal prosecutors said ...
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Blast hits near Hizbollah base
BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP)—A car bomb packed with explosives detonated near a Hizbollah base in eastern Lebanon on Tuesday causing several casualties, officials said, the latest in a wave of deadly atta...
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Gunman kills 1 at U.S. hospital
RENO, Nev. (AP)—A suicidal gunman opened fire at a Reno hospital campus Tuesday, killing one person, wounding two others and sending police on a door-to-door search within the facility amid the cha...
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NASA orders urgent ISS repairs
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)—NASA has ordered up a series of urgent spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line at the International Space Station, a massive repair job that could stretch to Christmas Day...
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Woman uses e-mail to declare innocence
FLORENCE (AP)—Amanda Knox declared her innocence in her roommate’s 2007 murder in a highly unusual e-mail Tuesday to the Italian court hearing the case against her. The former U.S. exchange stude...
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Stonehenge gets modern-day revamp
STONEHENGE, England (AP)—After thousands of years, Stonehenge has had a makeover. But visitors may initially feel something is missing: the prehistoric monument itself. Tourists now arrive at a gl...
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Greece granted new loan
ATHENS (AP)—Greece’s euro partners agreed Tuesday to hand over a delayed €1 billion ($1.4 billion) payment to the bailed-out country, just as its central bank warned over the economic impact of...
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Kamei said to have got ¥20 million
Lawmaker Shizuka Kamei received ¥20 million from the scandal-tainted Tokushukai medical group in 2008 but failed to mention the fact in a political funds report, according to informed sources. Kam...
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Culture
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Monet: A lasting impression
There are certainly few names in the history of art that carry such an aura of beauty and love of nature for people around the world as the name Monet. Another certainty is that the latest Monet exhib...
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Exhibition shows Hi-Red Center knew how to raise eyebrows
Among avant-garde art circles to come out of the mid-1960s in Japan, probably the most well-known today is the Hi-Red Center. The group’s name was created by connecting the English meaning of the fi...
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A closer look at Japanese collectivism
Recently a Japanese song I like very much but had not thought of for a while suddenly sprang to mind—“Zoo” by the rock band Echoes. The song has remained popular since its original release in 1...
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INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR KENNEDY / U.S. ‘has no truer friend than Japan’
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Japan, U.S. to up Senkaku surveillance
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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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U.S. funding to relocate marines OK’d
WASHINGTON—The armed services committees of both houses of the U.S. Congress have effectively approved spending to relocate 4,000 U.S. marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture to Guam from the U.S. f...
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Japan in Depth / Abe-Biden talks highlight efforts to counter China
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Abe, Biden lean on China to drop air defense zone
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Secrecy law enacted
The House of Councillors has passed into law a divisive bill to protect specially designated state secrets with a majority of support from the ruling bloc, despite fierce resistance from the oppositi...
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New grad job market still ‘highly selective’
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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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Release of water into sea inevitable after purification at Fukushima plant
It is imperative to speed up efforts to contain contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A government panel on measures to dispose of contaminated wate...
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好評連載「私の英語勉強法」 電子書籍の第８巻が発売されました
ジャパン・ニューズの語学学習ページ、LearningLab（毎週木曜付）で４週に１度掲載している「私の英語勉強法」。その電子書籍第８巻（税込420円）が...
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読売夕刊の人気コラム「コレって英語で？」 電子書籍第12巻が10月25日発売！
読売新聞夕刊（東京本社版）で毎週木曜に好評連載中のコラム「ジャパン・ニューズ記者のコレって英語で？」の電子書籍、第12巻（420円、税込）が...
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Message to our readers
Today the English-language newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun starts anew under the name of The Japan News.
Amid Japan's declining international presence, the nation is facing a chall...