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A Japan Coast Guard vessel and a helicopter conduct a search and rescue operation at the site where a U.S. military aircraft V-22 Osprey crashed into the sea off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan November 30, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERS
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U.S. continues to fly Osprey aircraft, though Japan asked to suspend

Japan said it had asked the U.S. to suspend all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory

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5.1- magnitude quake hits off East Coast of Honshu, Japan

A test tube labelled "Bird Flu", eggs and a piece of paper in the colours of the Japanese national flag are seen in this picture illustration, January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Japan detects season's first bird flu case, to cull 40,000 birds

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol along with moderator and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attend a summit discussion, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, at the Stanford, California, U.S., November 17, 2023. REUTERS/Brittany Hosea-Small
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Japan's Kishida, S Korea's Yoon talk tech, cooperation in Silicon Valley

Japan extends Tk14.7M to two grass-roots human security projects
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Japan extends Tk14.7M to two grass-roots human security projects

Toichiro, 22, son of cormorant fishing master or usho Youichiro Adachi, 48, works as a programmer at a Nagase Integrex factory in Seki, Japan, September 11, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Environmental change threatens what's left of Japan's cormorant fishing legacy

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (not pictured) oversees a strategic cruise missile test aboard a navy warship in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 21, 2023 KCNA via REUTERS / File Photo
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US, Japan, S.Korea defence chiefs to share North Korea missile data in Dec

Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, November 2, 2023. Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Japan PM to sack deputy finance minister over tax scandal - NHK

Japan's wholesale inflation slows sharply in sign of waning cost pressures
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Japan's wholesale inflation slows sharply in sign of waning cost pressures

Japan Self-Defense Forces soldiers take part in an evacuation drill on Yonaguni island, Japan's westernmost inhabited island in Okinawa prefecture, Japan November 12, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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Japanese island holds disaster drill in shadow of Taiwan threat

Steam billows from the waters off Ioto island in Ogasawara.
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Japan gets a new island after undersea volcano erupts

apanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa waits for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to arrive for a meeting, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. Julia Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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G7 support for Ukraine will not waver due to Middle East conflict, Japan says

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School's out forever in ageing Japan