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[ad_1] Children play a board game at an elementary school that is being used as an evacuation center in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Tuesday, as schools in the city remained closed on the first day of a new term. | Kyodo Evacuees exercise at an elementary school in Suzu on Tuesday. | Kyodo [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Bureij, Palestinian Territories – Israel's military on Monday showed journalists what a spokesman described as a cluster of weapons factories and tunnels used by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip to manufacture rockets.Soldiers leading a media tour in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip said that what looked like cement factories and other industrial facilities were in fact used to make missiles and shells stored in deep shafts.Stood in […]

[ad_1] The yen extended gains after the Bank of Japan indicated it will reduce monthly buying of superlong government bonds, in a reminder that it may still move to cut stimulus this year.The BOJ bought ¥150 billion ($1.04 billion) of 10-to-25 year debt on Tuesday. That was the same amount as the previous purchase on Dec. 25, but given that the central bank has cut back monthly operations, this points […]

[ad_1] As investigators suspect miscommunication was the cause of the fatal aircraft collision at Haneda Airport last week, the transport ministry announced on Tuesday new emergency safety measures aimed at ensuring more thorough surveillance and clearer orders on the runway.The collision between a Japan Airlines (JAL) flight and a coast guard aircraft left five coast guard personnel dead, and released records show that runway entry clearance was not issued to […]

[ad_1] Sony Group is planning to call off a merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment Enterprises, people familiar with the matter said, capping two years of drama and delay in creating a $10 billion (¥1.43 trillion) media giant.The Japanese conglomerate is looking to cancel the deal due to a standoff over whether Zee Chief Executive Officer Punit Goenka, also its founder’s son, would lead the merged entity, the […]

[ad_1] Japan's Naoya Inoue has agreed to defend his undisputed super bantamweight championship in May in Tokyo against former world champion Luis Nery, U.S. sports network ESPN reported Monday night. The 30-year-old Inoue needed just two fights at super bantamweight to seize the world championships of boxing's four top sanctioning bodies. He won the WBC and WBO titles in a July technical knockout before taking the other two in December […]

[ad_1] More than a week has passed since a massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake turned New Year's Day into disaster in Ishikawa Prefecture, where at least 202 have died and about 100 remain missing.Over the three-day weekend, a team from The Japan Times reported from the hard-hit Noto Peninsula — including the city of Wajima, where buildings were flattened and a major fire destroyed the central morning market. In Wajima and […]

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