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Tokyo tourism sector worried as elderly asked not to use travel scheme
Workers at tourist spots in Tokyo voiced concern Saturday about the negative impact on their businesses of the government's request for elderly people and those… Read
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In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth on Sunday after being dropped off by… Read
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When Toshitsune Tamashiro was young and closeted in 1980s Japan, Tokyo's Shinjuku Ni-chome gay district was a haven. Now he runs a bar there, and… Read
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Sakae Menda, the first person in Japan to have been released from death row after winning acquittal in a retrial, died Saturday of natural causes… Read
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