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The defence ministry offers an annual online module on general harassment. Tokyo: As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it’s struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual harassment cases, the number of women applying to join the…
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“We would like to apologise deeply for causing trouble”, the company said. (Representational) Tokyo: More than 100,000 packets of sliced bread have been recalled in Japan after parts of a black rat’s body were discovered inside two of them, the manufacturer said Wednesday. Food recalls are rare in Japan, a country with famously high standards…
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This undated photo released by and taken from the official website of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, shows a SH-60K chopper. File | Photo Credit: AP Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during a nighttime training flight after possibly colliding with each other, the country’s…
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Representational image of a seismograph recording an earthquake. | Photo Credit: via Reuters A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck off northeastern Japan’s Fukushima region on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after the earthquake, whose epicentre had a depth of 40 kilometres…
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Representational image of a mother and child in Tokyo, Japan. The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for an eighth straight year to a new low in 2023 | Photo Credit: AP The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for an eighth straight year to a new low, government…
A member of group of workers walks related a blue pipeline to move seawater, a part of the ability for liberating handled radioactive H2O to sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant, operated via Tokyo Electrical Energy Corporate Holdings, often referred to as TEPCO, right through a handled H2O dilution and discharge facility excursion…
