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• Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket strike

  World › 06:20 PM JST - 8th January

  Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward…

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• Israel says incursion will continue until Hamas rocket fire ceases

  World › 05:49 PM JST - 6th January

  Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern…

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• Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city

  World › 06:33 PM JST - 4th January

  Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new…

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• Israeli forces slice deeper into Gaza

  World › 12:40 PM JST - 5th January

  Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first full day…

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• Israel destroys Hamas homes, flattens Gaza mosque

  World › 06:00 PM JST - 2nd January

  Israel destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives and bombed one of its mosques on Friday, the seventh day of a blistering…

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• Japan wants anti-whalers barred from Australian, NZ and Chile ports

  National › 12:20 PM JST - 6th January

  Japan said Tuesday it plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling protest ship from using their ports to…

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• Police officer, teacher arrested for having sex with 16-year-old girl in Saitama

  Crime › 07:00 AM JST - 7th January

  A police officer and a high school teacher were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of both having had sex with a 16-year-old high school girl in…

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• Gaza truce proposed after Israeli shell kills 30 near U.N. school

  World › 06:00 AM JST - 7th January

  France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering…

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• Israel blasts Hamas targets

  World › 04:57 PM JST - 3rd January

  Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against…

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• Tent village in Tokyo park draws over 300 homeless people

  National › 03:46 AM JST - 3rd January

  A temporary tent village set up at a central Tokyo park has drawn more than 300 people without jobs or homes since it was set…

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• Whalers refuse help from Sea Shepherd to search for lost sailor

  National › 11:18 AM JST - 7th January

  Japanese whaling vessels searching for a missing crew member in freezing Antarctic waters have refused assistance from a hardline anti-whaling group, a spokesman for the…

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• Japanese sailor lost off whaling ship in Antarctic

  National › 06:01 AM JST - 6th January

  A crew member of Japan's controversial whale-hunting fleet was missing and presumed dead Monday after he apparently fell overboard in freezing Antarctic waters south of…

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• Mother of 3 kids who died in fire admits being at pachinko parlor, not hospital

  National › 12:49 PM JST - 8th January

  The mother of three children who died Tuesday in a fire at their apartment in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, was at a pachinko parlor at the…

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• Father, daughter, 5, thrown out of car after accident on Kyushu expressway; girl dies

  National › 01:18 PM JST - 2nd January

  A 5-year-old girl was thrown out of the car she was traveling in on the Kyushu Expressway and was then hit by a car behind,…

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• 70-yr-old man held for molesting 17-yr-old high school girl in Saitama

  Crime › 01:33 PM JST - 8th January

  A 70-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for molesting a 17-year-old high school girl in his car in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. Masahira Arai was…

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• Senior official retracts remarks over jobless people's will to work

  Politics › 10:34 AM JST - 6th January

  Parliamentary Secretary for Internal Affairs and Communications Tetsushi Sakamoto on Tuesday retracted his controversial remarks that questioned whether unemployed people who took shelter in a…

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• What do you think of the government's plan to give a Y12,000 cash handout to members of the public in an effort to stimulate the economy?

  Have Your Say › 07:14 AM JST - 7th January

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• Ministry of Defense employee arrested for feeling up 17-year-old girl on JR Saikyo line

  Crime › 11:25 AM JST - 8th January

  A Ministry of Defense employee was arrested on Wednesday under Tokyo and Saitama public nuisance ordinances, accused of putting his right hand up the skirt…

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• Deepening Israeli assault on Hamas divides Arab world

  World › 06:14 PM JST - 7th January

  Israel pressed deeper into Gaza on Wednesday in its assault on Hamas. As the battle grew deadlier, calls for a cease-fire mounted as did outrage…

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• Erika Sawajiri to get married at Meiji Shrine on Jan 19

  Entertainment › 04:41 AM JST - 3rd January

  Actress Erika Sawajiri, 22, told reporters outside her Setagaya home on Wednesday that she and hypermedia creator Tsuyoshi Takashiro, 44, will get married at Meiji…

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