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Tropical Storm Meari hammers Japan with heavy rainfall, wind
Waves hit ashore as Tropical Storm Meari is moving over coastal waters, in Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Shizuoka Prefecture was told to brace for extremely heavy rainfall. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Japan runs first current account deficit in five months
A cargo ship (L) sails into Tokyo's port on January 23, 2019. - Japan logged a trade deficit last year for the first time since 2015, with export growth slowing amid tensions between the country's two biggest trading partners -- China and the United States. (Photo by Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP)TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images
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Pelosi says U.S. won’t allow Taiwan to be isolated as China continues military exercises
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China halts climate, military ties with U.S. over Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit
FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese military H-6K bomber is seen conducting training exercises, as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force conducted a combat air patrol in the South China Sea on Nov. 23, 2017. China is staging live-fire military drills in six self-declared zones surrounding Taiwan in response to a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island Beijing claims as its own territory. (Wang Guosong/Xinhua via AP, File)
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Pelosi praises Taiwan, says Asian trip wasn’t to change status quo
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center left, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, leave the lower house in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Pelosi is in Tokyo on the final leg of an Asia tour highlighted by a visit to Taiwan that infuriated China.(AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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Airlines cancel, reroute flights during Chinese military drills near Taiwan
FILE PHOTO: A passenger jet of Taiwan's China Airlines at Taipei Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, June 8, 2020.REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo
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Japanese PM Fumio Kishida meets Pelosi, calls China drills ‘grave problem’
Anti-war activists wearing masks of U.S President Joe Biden and South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol hold a protest against joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises on the occasion of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit, in front of the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea, August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
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Japanese delegation discusses regional security during rare visit to Taiwan
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, third right, greets Japanese delegation led by lawmaker and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, third from left, at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan Thursday, July 28, 2022. The group of Japanese lawmakers including two former defense ministers met with Taiwan's president on Thursday in a rare high-level visit to discuss regional security. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)
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Japan executes man who killed seven people in 2008 stabbing rampage in Tokyo
(FILES) This file photo taken on June 8, 2008 shows rescue workers gathering at the site where a man went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo's Akihabara electronic shops street. - Japan on July 26, 2022 executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a stabbing rampage in Tokyo's popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, local media reported. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Japan detects country’s first monkeypox case in Tokyo
FILE PHOTO: Test tubes labeled "Monkeypox virus positive and negative" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Suspect charged in killing of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to undergo mental evaluation until November
Police inspect the site where Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot in Nara, western Japan, July 8, 2022. Many people mourned the death of Abe at the site where he was gunned down during a campaign speech a week ago Friday, shocking a nation known for its low crime rate and strict gun control. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Putin will not attend funeral for former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, Kremlin says
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk in a hall to take part in a final news conference in Moscow's Kremlin, Monday, April 29, 2013. Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation's most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday, July 8, 2022, in western Japan, hospital officials said.(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
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Japan slashes fiscal year GDP growth forecast to 2% on global demand slump
A person wearing a protective mask walks in the rain in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Friday, July 15, 2022, in Tokyo. Share prices were mixed in Asia on Friday after China reported its economy contracted by 2.6% in the last quarter as virus shutdowns kept businesses closed and people at home.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupts, triggering evacuation
This long exposure image shows the eruption of volcano Sakurajima Sunday night, July 24, 2022, in the view from Tarumizu city, Japan's southern prefecture of Kagoshima. Japan’s Meteorological Agency said a volcano on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu erupted Sunday night, spewing ash and volcanic rocks, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in nearby towns. (Kyodo News via AP)
european business
Global slowdown fears darken as cost of living bites
FILE PHOTO: A symphony of light illuminates the south facade of the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, December 30, 2021. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
international business
Bank of Japan retains easy policy, Kuroda shuns chance of near-term rate hike
A man walks past Bank of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Japan to hold state funeral for former PM Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27, sources say
A mourner offers flowers next to a picture of late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, on the day to mark a week after his assassination at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters, in Tokyo, Japan July 15, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers agree to improve relations
South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, left, and Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi bump elbows before their talks in Tokyo, Monday, July 18, 2022. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)
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Why did Shinzo Abe associate with a notorious church? On the long, strange history of Japan and the ‘Moonies’
Peter McGill
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Japan hopes to restart four more nuclear reactors in bid to avert any power crunch over winter
Koichi Hagiuda, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, speaks at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney, Australia, July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy/Pool