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Annual gun festival held at shrine in Saitama

December 9, 2013 - 22:14
Dozens of hunters fired blank shots to drive sacred horses up to a shrine in an annual gun festival in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. (NHK)
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Singapore chef licks competition in Japan cuisine contest

December 9, 2013 - 07:13
Singaporean chef Li Kwok Wing has trumped nine other chefs from around the world to clinch the gold medal in the finals of the inaugural Washoku World Challenge held in Tokyo on Sunday. (Straits Times)
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Crown Princess Masako turns 50, in recovery process

December 9, 2013 - 02:34
In a written statement issued for her 50th birthday Monday, Crown Princess Masako pledged to continue efforts to overcome a stress-induced illness that she has been dealing with for 10 years. (Kyodo)
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Tokyo cops bust Chinese hooker club in Nippori

December 9, 2013 - 00:36
Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday announced the bust of a prostitution club featuring Chinese women in Arakawa Ward. (Tokyo Reporter)
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OLs also profiting from illicit photo sessions

December 9, 2013 - 00:35
Tokyo Metropolitan Police in November announced the bust of a studio for allowing photography of school girls in seductive poses. According to Shukan Jitsuwa (Dec. 19), the trade in illicit private photography is varied, with office ladies among those in the biz. (Tokyo Reporter)
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Pearl Harbor attack map fetches $425,000 at U.S. auction

December 8, 2013 - 00:11
A post-battle Japanese damage assessment map of the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor air attack was sold for 425,000 dollars at an Christie's auction in New York Friday. (Jiji Press)
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Mother, three youths arrested over robbery in Kanagawa

December 7, 2013 - 00:10
Kanagawa prefectural police said Friday they have arrested four individuals in Ebina, in connection with a robbery case in which a pregnant woman on her way home was struck in the face and robbed of approximately 100,000 yen in cash. (Japan Today)
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Ex-Mainichi reporter arrested for menacing Jiji press chief

December 6, 2013 - 23:45
Japanese police arrested a former reporter of Mainichi Newspapers on Friday on suspicion of making phone threats against Jiji Press Ltd. President Yutaka Nishizawa. (Jiji Press)
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4 youths arrested for throwing bikes onto expressway

December 5, 2013 - 22:31
Police in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, said Thursday they have arrested four youths aged 16 to 19 for throwing two bicycles onto an expressway from an overpass in October. (Japan Today)
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Kobe light festival starts

December 5, 2013 - 22:23
An annual light festival commemorating a major earthquake 18 years ago has opened in the western Japanese port city of Kobe. (NHK)
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Woman arrested for calling police over 15,000 times in six months

December 5, 2013 - 08:22
A woman has been arrested in Sakai, Osaka, for harassment of the metropolitan police department after having called 110, the emergency number, 15,000 times in the last half year alone. (Japan Today)
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Yoko Ono recounts own hunger during war in Japan

December 5, 2013 - 06:28
Yoko Ono says her own bitter experience in Japan during World War II inspired her to support WhyHunger's "Imagine There's No Hunger" campaign to fight childhood hunger around the world. (abcnews.go.com)
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Emperor and Empress visit Chennai

December 4, 2013 - 23:28
Japan's Emperor and Empress have visited the southern Indian city of Chennai. (NHK)
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Ex-Sumo wrestler Kotomitsuki arrested for hiring illegal immigrants

December 4, 2013 - 14:01
Japanese police arrested former sumo ozeki Kotomitsuki on Wednesday on suspicion of violating the immigration law by employing foreigners illegally at a barbecue restaurant he runs in Nagoya, central Japan. (Jiji Press)
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Tokyo cops arrest 24 hookers in November sweep through Ikebukuro, Kabukicho

December 4, 2013 - 08:05
Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Tuesday announced that a crackdown on prostitution in the city’s nightlife areas last month resulted in the arrest of 24 women. (Tokyo Reporter)
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Doctor leaves gauze in patient's body in Sagamihara hospital

December 4, 2013 - 07:51
Officials at Sagamihara Chuo Hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture said Tuesday that a doctor left a piece of gauze in a patient's body after an operation last May. (Japan Today)
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Housing recovery slow after 1,000 days

December 4, 2013 - 04:38
A thousand days have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. However, only 1.2 percent of the planned land development for collective relocation of disaster-affected communities and construction of publicly operated housing have materialized, according to a survey conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun. (Yomiuri)
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Illuminations light up Fukushima temporary housing

December 3, 2013 - 21:32
Illuminations were switched on Sunday at a temporary housing facility in Fukushima, northern Japan, to cheer up evacuees of the 2011 March disaster. (NHK)
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A Japanese sex doll company is now making life-size Lady Gaga replicas

December 3, 2013 - 21:23
There is a fairly well-documented sex doll subculture in Japan, and one of its leading manufacturers is Orient Industry. Gaga and Universal Music Group's Japanese branch recruited the company to make replicas of the pop star. (businessinsider.com.au)
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Japanese woman aboard crashed N.Y. train

December 3, 2013 - 21:16
A 28-year-old Japanese woman was aboard a commuter train that crashed after derailing in the Bronx borough of New York on Sunday morning, the Japanese consulate-general in the city said Monday. (Jiji Press)
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