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                        <title><![CDATA[5 Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Tokyo]]></title>
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                                                While it may have started off as a bit of a faddish trend, the rise in the number of farmers markets and green innovations like Imerassoil-less "hydromembrane" has accompanied a resurgence of interestin the potential of urban agriculture and farming.  T...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Japan's opposition leader slams party co-leader over controversial words]]></title>
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                                                The Japan Restoration Party's co- head Shintaro Ishihara slammed the party's another leader, Toru Hashimoto, over the latter's controversial wartime sexual slavery remarks that have hurt public support for the party, according to local media. (Xinhua)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Japan enacts add-on corporate pension reform law]]></title>
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                                                Japan's House of Councillors passed into law Wednesday a bill to reform the "kosei nenkin kikin" add-on corporate pension fund system to promote the liquidation of financially troubled funds.  (Jiji Press)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Regulators officially decide new safety requirements for reactors]]></title>
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                                                The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday officially decided on Japan's new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing recurrences of disasters like the one at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011. (Kyodo)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Japan's trade balance in May shows 3rd-largest deficit ever]]></title>
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                                                Japan's trade balance in May showed the third-largest deficit ever for any month, with the red-ink streak extending to the longest 11th month as the depreciation of the yen continued to push up import prices despite a sharp gain in exports, the governmen...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Softbank rival Dish withdraws takeover bid for Sprint]]></title>
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                                                U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday it will not submit a revised merger proposal for Sprint Nextel Corp., effectively withdrawing its takeover bid and giving Japanese rival Softbank Corp. a clearer shot at acquiring the telecommuni...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[UNESCO register adds archive of pre-modern Japan mission to Spain]]></title>
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                                                A collection of materials related to a 17th century mission sent by a Japanese feudal lord to Europe and the world's oldest autographic diary left 10 centuries ago by a Japanese regent have been selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World registry, the J...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Abenomics mobilizes Japan homebuyers to action: Mortgages]]></title>
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                                                Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pledge to end 15 years of deflation has prompted the nation's biggest banks to raise mortgage rates, mobilizing people like Karin Abe to buy a home four years earlier than he had planned. (Bloomberg)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[No. of suicides drops below 30,000 for first time in 15 years]]></title>
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                                                The number of people who committed suicide in Japan in 2012 was 27,858, dropping below 30,000 for the first time in 15 years, the Cabinet Office said in a white paper on Tuesday. The figure was 2,800 fewer than in 2011. (Japan Today)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Police arrest ex-managers of failed Agura Bokujo]]></title>
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                                                Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department arrested on Tuesday former managers of Agura Bokujo K.K., which went bust in 2011 with debts of 420 billion yen with some 70,000 investors across Japan.  (Jiji Press)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Japan rubella sufferers top 10,000 in 6 months]]></title>
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                                                Reported cases of rubella in Japan totaled 10,102 in six months through June 9, some 30 times the total for the year-before period, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday.  (Jiji Press)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[LDP's Takaichi under fire over gaffe on nuclear accident]]></title>
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                                                Sanae Takaichi, policy chief of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party, has come under fire from both the ruling and opposition camps over remarks she made about the March 2011 severe nuclear accident.  (Jiji Press)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Pitching 'Abenomics' to G-8 colleagues finds Japan PM in bind]]></title>
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                                                Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pitching his economic policies to his fellow leaders at the just-ended summit of the Group of Eight nations in Northern Ireland, has put himself in a bind with the need to show a blueprint for achieving both growth and fiscal r...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Reputed mobster tip triggers new Hoffa search]]></title>
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                                                The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain's tip to once again break out the digging equipment in search of the elusive remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, last seen alive when he left for lunch with two mobsters 38 years ago.                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Supreme Court strikes down Arizona voter ID citizenship law]]></title>
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                                                The Supreme Court announced on Monday it has struck down an Arizona law that required voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship before registering to vote. In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, seven justices agreed that the Arizona law oversteps ...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[TEPCO puts radioactive water decontamination process on hold, yet another leak detected]]></title>
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                                                Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the disaster stricken Fukushima nuclear power facility, put on hold the ongoing test run of its water decontamination system on Sunday, June 16 because of a suspected leak in the holding tanks of the highly r...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Nikkei rallies on bargain hunting; Fed in focus]]></title>
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                                                Tokyo stocks closed up 2.7 percent on Monday to regain the 13,000 mark as investors bought battered exporter stocks, while gains in the rest of Asia's equity markets were capped ahead of this week's Federal Reserve policy meeting. (cnbc.com)                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Shizuoka Gov. Kawakatsu wins reelection]]></title>
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                                                Shizuoka Governor Heita Kawakatsu won a second four-year term in Sunday's gubernatorial election in the central Japan prefecture, easily defeating his two competitors including a candidate backed by the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.  (Jiji P...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Population pyramid a thing of the past]]></title>
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                                                The Japanese word "choju," meaning longevity, implies, with its kanji, joyous celebration of long life. Intrinsically, it is a joyful thing for people to live long. But if a society has many people who age in solitude, isolated from their families and lo...                        ]]></description>
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                        <title><![CDATA[Japanese repatriates visit burial site in N. Korea's northeast]]></title>
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                                                A group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea visited Sunday a site believed to contain the remains of Japanese soldiers and civilians near Chongjin, a port city in the country's northeast. (Kyodo)                        ]]></description>
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