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Japan (help·info) (Japanese: 日本/日本国 (Nihon or Nippon, officially Nihon-koku or Nippon-koku, (Japanese: 日本/日本国?) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea, and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name literally mean "sun-origin," thus Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun," derived from the country's eastward position relative to China. Its capital and largest city is Tokyo.

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Japan’s ANA to resume 787 flights on Sunday

Source: The Olympian

tool goes here TOKYO — Japan’s All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries. ANA said that ...
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Hashimoto To Retract Remark Suggesting U.S. Military Use Sex Industry

Source: Nikkei News

TOKYO (Kyodo)--Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said Saturday he will retract his remark suggesting that U.S. servicemen in Japan use the country's adult entertainment industry in order to prevent them from committing sex offen ...
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Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

TOKYO (May 25, 2013): A Japanese politician who drew fire for calling "comfort women" a wartime necessity has been forced to apologise for suggesting US soldiers in Okinawa visit brothels to vent their violent frustrations. ...
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Source: Nikkei News

TOKYO (Kyodo)--Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. said Saturday it has detected unauthorized accesses to the administrative system of one of the department store group's online shopping sites and suspects information on up to 8,289 ...
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Source: The Northern Echo

Durham's Emily Sarsfield will travel to Sochi next March for the Winter Olympics THE sporting world embraces the weird and wonderful, but some pursuits still defy rational explanation. Take ski cross, one of the fastest ...
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Source: Couer d'Alene Press

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Source: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

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