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Fukuhara among athletes whose medical data hacked

Women’s table tennis team bronze medalist Ai Fukuhara is among the three Japanese athletes who were targeted in the latest leak of confidential medical documents, a cyber hacker group said Monday.

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China-Japan relations deemed important amid discrepancies: poll

Most Chinese and Japanese citizens continue to believe that China-Japan relations are very important, hoping for peaceful coexistence and shared development, a poll released here Friday shows.

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Pew poll: How the Japanese and Chinese see each other

Arrogant, violent and to varying degrees, nationalistic. That's how the Japanese and Chinese publics see each other's country, according to a new poll that reflects the geopolitical tensions between the neighboring East Asia powers.

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China to build Japanese war trial database

​A Chinese university has announced an ambitious plan to build the largest database in Asia on the Japanese war criminal trials that followed World War II.

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Japanese-Indian crowned Miss Japan, drawing mixed reaction

Social media lit up Tuesday with the news of a half-Indian woman being crowned a beauty queen in Tokyo, with many congratulating her and marveling at how far Japan has come in embracing racial diversity.

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Japan warns Brexit may drive banks, pharma investment to EU

Japan has warned Britain that its exit from the European Union could prompt Japanese financial institutions to relocate from London and listed a raft of concerns from Japanese companies about the transition away of the EU.

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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe plays Super Mario in Rio, but is it game over for Abenomics?

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cameo appearance as video game icon Super Mario at the closing of this year’s Olympiad in Rio helped promote the 2020 games in Tokyo, but cannot disguise the fact that some think it may be game over for Japan’s current combination of fiscal and monetary policy settings, known as Abenomics.

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Japan's PM Abe considering visiting Cuba next month: Kyodo

​Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting Cuba next month to strengthen ties and promote Japanese investments there, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday, but the foreign ministry said no such plan was being made.

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China denounces Japanese cabinet members' visit to Yasukuni Shrine

China on Monday voiced "firm" opposition after two Japanese cabinet members paid homage to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on the 71st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II.

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Sharp says China regulators have OK'd Foxconn acquisition

Japan's Sharp Corp. says China has become the final government to approve the acquisition of the Japanese electronics maker by the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and the tie-up will go ahead soon.

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S. Korea deeply regrets Abe's offering, politicians' visit to notorious Tokyo shrine

South Korea expressed deep regret and worry on Monday over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sending a ritual offering to a notorious Tokyo war shrine and a group of Japanese politicians paying respect to the infamous shrine.

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Abe sends ritual offering to notorious Yasukuni Shrine

Regardless of the feelings of the peoples of neighboring countries, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 71st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II.

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Japan's cabinet minister visits notorious Yasukuni Shrine

New reconstruction minister of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet visited the war-linked notorious Yasukuni Shrine here on Thursday.

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Indonesia holds arts exhibition raising awareness of comfort women issue

Indonesia held an art creations exhibition to showcase the sufferings of Ianfu or "comfort women" during Japan colonization in Indonesia from 1941 to 1945.

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Nagasaki marks 71st anniv. of A-bombing amid calls for reflecting on Japan's aggression history

Nagasaki, a southwest Japanese city, marked the 71st anniversary of atomic bombing on Tuesday, amid calls from ordinary japanese people for reflecting on the country's aggression history.

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China investigates Japanese citizen on national security concerns

China has investigated a Japanese citizen on suspicion of threatening Chinese national security, confirmed the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday.