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Japan’s cut-price morgues cash in on legal loopholes as lonely deaths rise (opens the original)
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One Tokyo-based company is offering to do everything from body collection up to ash internment for just US$1,040 Some industry insiders have expressed shock at the trend and are calling for regulation to block potential loopholes, while others point to public apathy as an enabling factor. The Asahi newspaper reported last week that nondescript industrial buildings in suburban districts were being used to store human remains in refrigerator units. Reporters visited a “makeshift morgue” operated b
Japan begins clean-up after Typhoon Dujuan kills 4, batters east (opens the original)
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Landslide warnings remained in force on Tuesday after the 25th typhoon of the season left thousands without power and ruined holiday plans Nearly 2 million people were instructed to evacuate their homes in low-lying coastal areas, or be prepared to move at short notice, after the Japan Meteorological Agency had warned that the typhoon posed an “imminent threat to life”. While the evacuation order has since been lifted, authorities are still warning residents to beware of landslides in areas wher
Russia targets ‘unfriendly nations’ as asset seizures spook Japanese firms (opens the original)
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The takeover of Swiss and French brands raises the spectre of retaliation against some 230 Japanese businesses still in Russia “These are unfriendly nations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said while announcing the decision to introduce “external management”. He added that the countries involved were either “actively involved in military actions against our country” or had “engaged in strikes by the Kyiv regime on our civilian and economic infrastructure”.
Crouching dragons: the suicide divers Japan never sent to war (opens the original)
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Sealed in diving suits with mines attached to poles, Japan’s ‘fukuryu’ frogmen waited beneath the waves for an invasion that never came Far less well-remembered are the fukuryu – suicide frogmen trained in the closing months of World War II to walk into the sea with mines on bamboo poles, then wait beneath the waves for an Allied invasion fleet. Kanade Hamamoto was one of many Japanese people who had never heard of them, despite spending years on the same stretch of coast where they once trained
To visit or not to visit Kyiv? Japan’s Takaichi faces tough balancing act (opens the original)
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Analysts say a Ukraine trip will be an ‘excellent opportunity’ for Takaichi to show her mettle, despite concerns about chilly Russia ties Zelensky extended the invitation through Eisuke Mori, speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, during his visit to the Ukrainian capital earlier this week. Mori, who helped establish the cross-party Japan-Ukraine parliamentary friendship group in 1995, is widely regarded as one of Japan’s more experienced parliamentary voices on Ukraine and did not hold ba
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