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Japan has just 13 female CEOs among top 1,600 companies, survey shows

Fewer than 1% of chief executive officers at the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are women, survey finds

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Dozens injured, power cut as Typhoon Shanshan hits southern Japan

Powerful storm with gusts of up to 216km per hour made landfall near Satsumasendai city in southwestern Kyushu.

Al Jazeera

Powerful Typhoon Shanshan Slams Into Southern Japan

Typhoon Shanshan slammed into Japan's main southern island of Kyushu early Thursday, with authorities advising thousands of people to evacuate and issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges.

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Japan’s PM cancels overseas trip after experts issue ‘megaquake’ warning

The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its first-ever warning of the risk of a huge earthquake along the Pacific coast

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Japan to allow divorced parents to share custody of children

Change to civil code will bring Japan into line with other G7 countries, amid concerns existing law inflicts psychological harm on children

The Guardian - AU

Japan dietary supplement recalled amid investigation into two deaths and 100 hospitalisations

Cholesterol-lowering supplements containing ‘beni koji’ recalled by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical over possible link to kidney disease

The Guardian - AU

Mount Fuji hikers will be forced to pay to climb popular route to summit

Congestion charge comes amid boom in tourism that has put pressure on infrastructure and increased potential for accidents

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Japan sentences man to death for Kyoto anime studio fire that killed 36

Judge says attack on renowned Kyoto Animation by Shinji Aoba, 45, ‘instantly turned the studio into hell’.

Al Jazeera

Japan passenger jet in fatal crash ‘had been given clearance to land’

Investigators begins inspecting wreckage of catastrophic collision in which five crew members on Coast Guard plane killed in crash with airliner at Haneda airport

Evening Standard

Japan quake toll rises as rescuers struggle to reach cut-off villages

Heavy rain is forecast into Thursday raising the risk of landslides and further complicating relief efforts.

Al Jazeera

Japan earthquake: death toll rises to 62 amid warnings of landslides and aftershocks

Ishikawa and its Noto peninsula, one of the worst affected areas, has been hit by more than 100 aftershocks

The Guardian - AU

Japan Airlines Plane On Fire On Runway At Tokyo's Haneda Airport: TV Images

A Japan Airlines plane burst into flames on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, media reports said.

International Business Times

Japan lifts tsunami warnings but warns earthquake damage ‘widespread’

At least 48 people reported dead since the magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the west coast on New Year’s Day.

Al Jazeera

Rescuers Search For Missing After US Osprey Crashes Off Japan

Rescuers scoured waters off Japan on Thursday as they searched for at least five missing US Air Force personnel whose Osprey crashed during a training exercise, in the latest incident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft.

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The Guardian - UK

Japanese kabuki actor gets suspended sentence for assisting parents’ suicide

Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accused of sexual abuse

The Guardian - AU

Japan gets a new island after undersea volcano erupts

New landmass about 100 metres across pops up above the waves near Iwoto island after eruptions began last month

The Independent UK

Suspect indicted on attempted murder charge in explosives attack on Japan's Kishida, report says

Japanese media reports say a man has been indicted on attempted murder and other charges over an explosives attack targeting Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in April

Fortune

U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage

He said it was intended to be a “show of solidarity” after the release of the water sparked protests and concerns that Japanese seafood would be contaminated.

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North Korea tells Japan of launch plan, a possible 2nd try to put up spy satellite, Japan media say

Japanese media say North Korea has told Japan it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days, in what could be a second try to put a military spy satellite into orbit

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Conflict over clocks: China among countries where time is political

Keeping of time in Asia has often been subject more to the geopolitics of time zones than considerations of geography.

Bangkok Post

Japan LGBT law watered down amid culture war

Japan enacted a law to promote LGBT understanding last Friday after months of debate, but for some activists, the discussions did as much to entrench existing discrimination as encourage more open attitudes.

The Independent UK

5 killed after truck collides with bus in Hokkaido in northern Japan

Five people have been killed and 12 others taken to the hospital after a truck collided with a bus in Hokkaido in northern Japan

The Guardian - AU

Japanese sushi chain sues viral food vandal for damages

Sushiro says business badly damaged by video of teenager licking soy sauce bottle and wiping saliva on passing food

The Guardian - AU

Japan court falls short of calling same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional

The complicated ruling from a court in Fukuoka comes after four other courts reached differing conclusions, and ahead of a parliamentary debate on the subject

The Guardian - AU

France opposed to opening of Nato liaison office in Japan, official says

Nato statutes ‘clearly limit the scope to North Atlantic’, official says, with reports that president Macron personally objects to the idea

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