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Japan says Chinese fighter-bombers came within 30 metre of its spy aircraft
The Independent
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July 11, 2025
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Japanese delegation visits Dholera to explore investment opportunities
ETInfra.com
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July 11, 2025
The visit by the Japanese delegation highlights Dholera's rising global prominence and its potential to serve as India's gateway to advanced manufacturing, the official statement added. Japan's Ambassador to India, Keiichi Ono, led a high-level...
Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono meets Gujarat CM, highlights Japan’s intent to deepen ties with state
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 11, 2025
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], July 11 (ANI): Japan's Ambassador to India, Keiichi Ono, accompanied by Japan's Minister of Economic and Development Affairs, Koyoko Hokugo, paid a courtesy visit to Gujarat's Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in...
Japan boosts Enugu’s medical waste management with new incinerator project
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 11, 2025
The Government of Japan, through its Embassy in Nigeria, is deepening its health interventions in Enugu State with plans to install a medical waste incinerator at Abakpa Health Centre. The incinerator will serve the health centre, as well as over...
Japan-Indonesia Rectors Forum propose research consortium
Antara
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July 11, 2025
Makassar (ANTARA) - At the 6th Joint Working Group (JWG) Japan-Indonesia and the 6th Japan-Indonesia Rectors Conference, a forum of rectors from state universities in Indonesia and Japan introduced the idea of a research consortium. Hasanuddin...
Japan-backed report highlights Pakistan's education crisis: 25 million children out of school
Pennsylvania Sun
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Islamabad [Pakistan], July 11 (ANI): Pakistan is grappling with an alarming education crisis, with over 25.37 million children aged 5-16 out of school, according to Dawn News. In a country where access to quality education remains a persistent...
Japan Shifts Space Policy from Science to Security
JAPAN Forward
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July 11, 2025
As space becomes a contested, congested, and competitive domain, Japan is rapidly transforming its approach to space development. A recent lecture by Mitsuru Nodomi, former Director of the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSIC) and retired...
Japan boosts indigenous education with new classroom grant in Kidapawan City
Mindanao Times
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July 11, 2025
52 THE JAPANESE government, through its Official Development Assistance (ODA) program, has formalized a grant agreement to fund the construction of a new classroom building for students at Datu Umpan IP School in Kidapawan City, Cotabato. The...
Japanese consortium to develop integrated simulation platform for sustainable shipping
Ship Technology
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July 9, 2025
A collaborative project involving multiple Japanese organisations has been selected by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to enhance maritime innovation. Titled “Development of Integrated Simulation Platform for Sustainable and...
Tokyo Ghoul Celebration Reminds Us How Influential the Series Is (And Why it Needs to Come Back)
Comicbook
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July 11, 2025
It’s 2014, and the edge was all the rage. People were back into leather, needless misery, and lots of violence. It was the perfect time for something like Tokyo Ghoul to arrive and take the anime scene by storm. It was a violent gothic horror...
Tokyo Is Missing Blade Runner Where It Needs It Most
Mint
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July 10, 2025
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- From Lost in Translation to the Japanese-inspired aesthetics of Blade Runner, Tokyo’s image overseas has long been one of skyscrapers jutting into the sky. But it’s easy to forget that it was only recently that the capital...
Japanese real estate developer invests in Pure Salmon Japan
RAStech
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July 10, 2025
Pure Salmon welcomed Mori Trust as a strategic investor of what could be Japan’s largest land-based salmon farming project. Pure Salmon is developing a 10,000-ton Atlantic salmon RAS facility in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture called Soul of Japan. The...
Japan high schooler keeps delivering solo street speeches to address voter apathy
The Mainichi
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Onshi Fujimi gives a street speech in Fukuoka's Chuo Ward, May 14, 2025. (Mainichi/Masanori Hirakawa) FUKUOKA -- A second-year high school student living in southwest Japan's Saga Prefecture has been delivering a street speech alone about once a...
Japan Art and Culture
Modern Tokyo Times
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July 10, 2025
Japan Art and Culture Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Kubota Beisen (1852–1906) came of age during the social upheavals of the late Edo Period and matured as an artist amid the sweeping modernization of the Meiji Restoration (1868–1912). His...
Earthquake swarms stoke fears of the ‘big one’ in Japan
OregonLive.com
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July 11, 2025
More than 1,300 earthquakes have hit Japan’s Tokara Islands in two weeks, prompting evacuations of dozens of residents from the remote archipelago on the country’s southern tip. Although no major damage has been reported and no tsunami warnings...
Indonesia, Japan boost caregiver training for aging population
Antara
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July 11, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia and Japan held a seminar to enhance the capability and quality of Indonesian caregivers who plan to pursue careers in Japan, particularly in the elderly care sector known as kaigo. Director General of Healthcare...
Efforts to deepen ASEAN's partnerships, contribute to peace, stability, sustainable development
Vietnam News Agency
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KUALA LUMPUR — As part of the ongoing 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-58) and related meetings, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn on July 10 attended ASEAN+1 foreign ministers’ meetings with...
Japan’s CGPI Climbs 2.9 Percent in June
MENAFN
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July 10, 2025
(MENAFN) Japan's Corporate Goods Price Index (CGPI), a key indicator that tracks prices of goods traded among companies, rose by 2.9% in June compared to the same month a year earlier, according to preliminary figures released by the Bank of Japan...
Sabah’s tourism: A sustainable path for future
Borneo Post
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July 11, 2025
A Bornean Elephant along the bank of Kinabatangan River.-Bernama photo KOTA KINABALU (July 11)Sabah’s tourism industry often draws comparisons with regional giants like Bali, Phuket, or Da Nang. While these comparisons can offer valuable insights,...
Issue 154: Temasek’s SIA burden; MAS evolves climate investing approach
The Business Times Singapore
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July 11, 2025
This week in ESG: Temasek releases latest sustainability report; so does the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Net zero SIA’s decarbonisation tailwinds A small tweak in Temasek’s latest sustainability report reveals just how much a single airline...