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Harumi Ozawa
Wan-Wan Patrol: Four-legged friends keep Tokyo neighbourhood safe
Meet the pups of Tokyo’s real-life Paw Patrol
Japan condom makers hope for 2020 Olympic lift
Japanese condom makers are ramping up preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Japanese minister resigns over insensitive comments
Japan’s economy, trade and industry minister has resigned over his comments about radiation contamination in crisis-hit Fukushima.
Japan plugs leak from nuclear plant
Workers at Japan’s crippled atomic power plant on Wednesday plugged a hole spewing highly radioactive water into the ocean.
Rescuers search for injured after strong quake in Japan
Rescue teams searched in dense fog and rain on Thursday for victims of a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 120 people injured.
G8 business chiefs spar over climate change
World business chiefs gathered in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss ways to tackle global warming as transatlantic tensions emerged over how far industry should go to reduce…
Japanese whaling ship attacked by activists
Militant environmentalists hurled stinging acid for more than an hour onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members, officials said. Both…
In Japan, laughter to be measured by ‘aH’
Japanese professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can end the world’s wars. The only problem is finding a way to measure it. And so the expert on…
Sony scrambles to contain growing battery troubles
Japan’s Sony, scrambling to contain the fall-out from widening defective battery problems, launched a global replacement programme after China’s Lenovo became the latest computer…
Author of Japanese suicide manual has no regrets
Wataru Tsurumi sparked outrage more than a decade ago with his handbook on how to commit suicide. Now, he says, Japan is finally addressing an issue it long turned a blind eye…
Japanese space programme hit by new setback
A Japanese spacecraft that failed on its landmark mission to collect asteroid samples suffered a new setback on Wednesday with its return to Earth delayed by three years until…