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  Summer updates: ANA to refit its long-haul flights with new seats

  March 31, 2026

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  Spring weather draws crowds to Tokyo’s famed sakura locations

  March 30, 2026

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  More historical sites reopening as luxury hotels to fund upkeep

  March 29, 2026

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  Giant pipe that rose from Osaka street cut down after 2 weeks

  March 24, 2026

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  10 meters of underground pipe jut out of Osaka road

  March 11, 2026

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  Heavy snow in northern Kanto prompts traffic warnings

  March 10, 2026

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  Motive mystery: Man’s classmate charged in 1999 cold case murder

  March 5, 2026

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  Solidarity rallies for Ukraine held in Tokyo and Kobe

  February 25, 2026

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  Well-wishers cheer Emperor Naruhito on his 66th birthday

  February 23, 2026

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  Researcher of Edo-Period running styles finds his stride

  February 22, 2026

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  Volunteers revive Minami-Boso's flower fields to former glory

  February 17, 2026

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  Kawazu-zakura trees now in full bloom across Izu Peninsula town

  February 16, 2026

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  Village deploys high-tech drone to scare off bears in Fukushima

  February 16, 2026

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  Finless porpoises filmed off Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay

  February 13, 2026

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  ‘Spirited Away’ by Yubara Onsen’s ancient soothing waters

  February 7, 2026

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  First in the world: Kindai University farms ‘nodoguro’ perch

  February 6, 2026

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  Peak conditions: ‘Diamond Fuji’ visible from Tokyo Skytree

  February 4, 2026

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  5 ballot boxes greet some early voters in Osaka

  February 2, 2026

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  Demand for bedbug-sniffing dogs soars at hotels in Japan

  January 28, 2026

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  Party leaders cite main priorities before election campaign starts

  January 26, 2026

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  Yamagami gets life sentence for 2022 murder of Shinzo Abe

  January 21, 2026

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  Mourners mark 31st anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

  January 17, 2026

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  Train line services resume after commuter chaos in Tokyo

  January 16, 2026

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  1 dead, 1 injured in stabbing amid fiery apartment eviction in Tokyo

  January 15, 2026