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Suntory cancels contract of ex-Wallaby Smith over alleged assault

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Australian rugby legend George Smith will no longer play for Suntory Sungoliath after the club said Thursday it had canceled the player's contract for his alleged assault of a taxi driver late last year. (Japan Today)

11-year-old girl killed after excavator hits kids with impaired hearing

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An excavator rammed into pupils and teachers of a school for children with impaired hearing in Osaka on Thursday, killing an 11-year-old girl and injuring four others, police and rescuers said. (Japan Today)

Sunken tanker oil may have reached Japan beach

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Oily objects that may have come from a tanker that sank off a southwestern island in Japan has reached the Japanese coast. (NHK)

Tokyo: 'JK' parlor featuring underage girls masqueraded as smartphone how-to biz

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Tokyo Metropolitan Police have busted a so-called “JK” (joshi kosei) school girl business in Maeda City that is believed to have masqueraded as a how-to service for smartphones while supplying underage female employees for sex, TBS News (tokyoreporter.com)

English adopted for more junior high entrance exams in Japan

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More and more private junior high schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the Kansai western Japan region are introducing English in their general entrance examinations. (Jiji)

Police on the lookout for air gun shooter in Kobe

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Police in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, are searching for a man who is believed to be behind three air gun shootings in the city, which have so far injured two elderly men. (Japan Today)

Takanohana fails to regain sumo association directorship

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The first Japan Sumo Association director to be dismissed before the end of his term, popular sumo elder and former yokozuna Takanohana, failed to regain his spot on the board of directors on Friday. (Japan Today)

Snow returns to Tokyo disrupting transport, entrance exams

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Snow blanketed Tokyo and surrounding areas for the second time this winter on Friday, disrupting transport and forcing delays in entrance exams at educational institutions. (Japan Today)

Fujii becomes 1st junior high shogi player with rank of fifth dan

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Sota Fujii, the youngest professional shogi player, won a key match on Thursday and was promoted to fifth dan from fourth dan, becoming the first to hold the higher rank while being a junior high school student. (Jiji)

Suspect with telling tattoo nabbed after 15 years

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Japanese police have arrested a murder suspect whose life as a fugitive in Thailand ended when a photo of his prominent tattoo was posted on Facebook. (NHK)

Cranial bones of 3 horned dinosaurs found in western Japan

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Cranial bones of three primitive horned dinosaurs have been found in a Lower Cretaceous stratum in Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the Museum of Nature and Human Activities said Saturday. (Jiji)

'Setsubun' bean-throwing event held at Narita Temple

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A bean-throwing event was held at Naritasan Shinshoji, a major Buddhist temple in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Sunday, the day of "Setsubun" in Japan. (Jiji)

Tokyo: Elderly woman dragged 30 meters by truck in purse-snatching incident

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Tokyo Metropolitan Police have released security camera footage showing an elderly woman being dragged for several dozen meters by a truck during a purse-snatching incident in Katsushika Ward on Thursday, reports TBS News (tokyoreporter.com)

Japan successfully launches mini-rocket

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Japan's space agency has successfully test-launched a mini-rocket carrying a microsatellite. (NHK)

Chiba: Police hunt for man, 46, after son found bludgeoned to death in residence

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Chiba Prefectural Police are hunting for a 46-year-old man after his son, 20, was found bludgeoned to death in their residence in Yotsukaido City early Sunday, reports TV Asahi (tokyoreporter.com)

Japanese athletes arrive in S. Korea for Olympics

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The 132-strong main body of Japan's Pyeongchang Olympic team arrived in South Korea on Sunday. (Jiji)

Ex-pro wrestling star The Destroyer receives the Order of the Rising Sun

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Former American professional wrestler The Destroyer, who garnered tremendous popularity in Japan decades ago, received the esteemed Order of the Rising Sun at a ceremony in Buffalo on Saturday, reports Nippon News Network. (tokyoreporter.com)

Ruling coalition-backed rookie beats antibase incumbent in Nago mayoral election

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Ruling camp-backed rookie Taketoyo Toguchi defeated incumbent Susumu Inamine in a mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday. (Jiji)

How to get ready for a trip and not to go crazy

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Travelling has become a part of everyone's life; we can go on trips around our own country or to a foreign one. Despite the purposes of travelling, we usually want to prepare ourselves as quickly as possible to arrange all conveniences and important nuances, no matter whether it is a business trip, several hours travel, tourist trip or family journey. (newsonjapan.com)

8 amazing tricks you should know when learning sociology

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Sociology is a science that studies relationships, processes, and events that take place in society. It studies not only the social interactions that take place at this particular moment, but also those that took place to be tens, hundreds and thousands of years ago. In addition, sociology also has the function of forecasting. It means that a person can foresee the next changes in public life with its help. (newsonjapan.com)
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