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    The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by The Japan Times, Ltd. (株式会社ジャパンタイムズ, Kabushiki gaisha...
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    Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland. It is bordered on the west by the...
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    The Japan national basketball team, also known as Akatsuki Japan (Japanese: アカツキジャパン), is the national team representing Japan in international basketball...
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    Post-earthquake images of Japan Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami The New York Times Japan in Crisis: A Series of Interviews...
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    The economy of Japan is a highly developed/advanced social market economy, often referred to as an East Asian model. It is the fourth-largest economy in...
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    Naruhito (redirect from Naruhito of Japan)
    of Japan. He acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne on 1 May 2019, beginning the Reiwa era, following the abdication of his father, Akihito. He is the 126th...
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    imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese...
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    storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation....
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    Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered...
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    of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 1989 until his abdication in 2019. The era of his rule was named the Heisei...
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    born 30 November 1965, Japanese: [ɸɯmiꜜçi̥to]) is the younger brother and heir presumptive of the Emperor of Japan, Naruhito, and the younger son of Emperor...
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    Japan, so Japanese adult videos (JAV) refers to the Japanese Adult Video industry. Animated films are referred to as hentai in English, but in Japan the...
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  • 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in...
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    nationalist political party in Japan. The LDP was formed in 1955 as a merger of two conservative parties: the Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party. Since...
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    The Shinkansen (Japanese: 新幹線, [ɕiŋkaꜜɰ̃seɴ] , lit. 'new main line'), colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway...
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    The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, たぬき), is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It...
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  • The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and...
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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million...
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    Japan have fewer legal protections than in most other developed countries, although some developments towards stronger rights have been made in the 2020s...
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  • Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. According to The Japan Times, as...
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    of the Imperial House of Japan. She is the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan. Following her birth, the ongoing Japanese imperial...
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    forces of Japan. Established in 1954, the JSDF comprises the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the Japan Air Self-Defense...
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    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Japan. The Penal Code of Japan and several laws list 14 capital crimes. In practice, though, it is applied only...
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    bright side". The Japan Times. 19 October 2016. The centrist Times of Israel "Israel just crossed a line it has never crossed before". The World from PRX...
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  • Japan in men's international football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan. Until the end...
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    The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (立憲民主党, Rikken-minshutō, CDP or CDPJ) is a liberal political party in Japan. It is the primary centre-left...
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    The United States Forces Japan (USFJ) (Japanese: 在日米軍, Hepburn: Zainichi Beigun) is a subordinate unified command of the United States Indo-Pacific Command...
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    Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken) is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. It has a population of 1,457,162 (as...
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    videos about Japanese culture, Japanese food and travel in Japan, primarily in the Tōhoku region. Broad's interest in filmmaking began at the age of eight...
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    The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner bearing a crimson-red circle at its center. This flag is officially called the Nisshōki (日章旗...
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