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NHK’s impartiality questioned

The impartiality of Japan’s national broadcasting agency was questioned when it failed to report a protester’s action when he set himself on fire in protest of the change in Japan’s defense policy.

Typhoon churns towards Japan, prompting calls to evacuate

(Reuters) – Hundreds of flights were cancelled in Japan and more than 500,000 people urged to evacuate as a powerful typhoon brought torrential rain and high winds to southwestern islands and was forecast to reach Tokyo later in the week. Typhoon Neoguri weakened from its original status as a super typhoon but remained intense, with gusts of more than 250 km per hour (155 mph). It was powering towards the Okinawa island chain where emergency rain and […]