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The dementia timebomb: Ageing Japan faces healthcare crisis

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Smartphone app lets users catch shrine deities in Miyazaki town

Yosei Ito, who developed the “Takachiho GO” smartphone app, poses with a deity known as Susanoo no Mikoto at Mukoyamajinja shrine in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture.

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How Abe's new security laws violate constitution

​"The new security laws are in violation of the pacifist constitution. They and Abe's attempts to amend the constitution, could see Japan return to militarism and are absolutely unacceptable to the people," said constitutional scholar Makoto Ito in a recent interview with Xinhua.