EU, Japan sign major trade deal in ‘message against protectionism’
by Hiroshi HIYAMA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japan and the EU signed a sweeping free trade deal…
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Fierce heatwave hits Japan flood recovery
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- A blistering heatwave smothered swathes of flood-hit western Japan Monday, hampering clean-up efforts as survivors and…
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Japan rains disaster toll rises to 199: government
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- The toll in record rains that have devastated parts of Japan rose Thursday to 199, with dozens…
8 years ago
France goes big on Japan with multi-million cultural program
by Loïc Vennin Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Since Impressionist artists first clapped eyes on woodblock prints, Japan has been…
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Taiwan spared as Typhoon Maria weakens
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) -- Schools and offices were closed in parts of Taiwan Wednesday as Typhoon Maria skirted the…
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Japan PM to meet stranded evacuees in flood disaster zone; death toll rises to 179
by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse KURASHIKI, Japan (AFP) - Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe headed Wednesday to one of the…
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Tokyo stocks open lower as trade war worries resurface
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Tokyo stocks opened lower on Wednesday as worries about a trade war resurfaced after the United…
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UPDATED: Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 156
by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse KURASHIKI, Japan (AFP) -- Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely…
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Shinzo Abe cancels overseas trip as rain toll hits 100: local media
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has canceled a four-country foreign trip as the death toll from…
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WATCH: Desperate rescue efforts as Japan rains toll hits 75
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) -- Rescue workers, police and troops in Japan battle to reach people feared trapped by devastating flooding and…
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Landslide warnings as Japan digs through rain devastation
by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse Desperate relatives braced for bad news Monday as rescuers dug through landslides in the wake…
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Official death toll from record Japan rains rises to 75
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- The toll in record rains that have devastated parts of Japan rose to 75 on Monday,…
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