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Young women leaving small hometowns for jobs in big cities
Young women across Japan are leaving their rural hometowns bound for Tokyo in search of improved job prospects.
Horses compete in traditional beach racing event in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture
Several types of horses have galloped or lumbered along a sandy beach during a decades-old racing event in Japan's ...
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Hyundai Motor makes first-ever delivery of electric buses in Japan
The South Korean automaker held a delivery ceremony for the Elec City Town buses with Iwasaki Group in Yakushima, Kagoshima ...
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Southwestern islands’ evacuation plan is a work in progress
TOKYO >> Japan’s plan to evacuate about 120,000 people from several southwestern islands in the event of an emergency in ...
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Victims mourned 69 years after Minamata disease recognition
There were 2,284 certified patients of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture and neighboring Kagoshima Prefecture as of the ...
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Final H-2A Rocket to Be Launched on June 24
The 50th and final H-2A rocket will be launched on June 24 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, ...
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Final H-IIA rocket to be launched in June
Japan's 50th and final H2A rocket will be launched on June 24 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, ...
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Hyundai Motor Deploys Zero-emission ELEC CITY TOWN Bus on Japan's Yakushima Island
Hyundai Motor Company today held a handover ceremony to deliver Hyundai ELEC CITY TOWN electric buses to Tanegashima ...
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(LEAD) Hyundai Motor makes first-ever delivery of electric buses in Japan
SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday it has delivered five electric buses to the transportation unit of Japan's Iwasaki Group, marking its first commercial electric bus ...