Japan

How US Marines are being reshaped for China threat
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US & Canada
Posted
1 February 2023
Two skiers found dead after Japan avalanche
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Asia
Posted
30 January 2023
The Documentary Podcast. A short history of sadness. Audio, 48 minutes
Author Helen Russell explores a history of gloom, and how different cultures tackle it
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Eight dead after cargo ship sinks off Japan coast
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Asia
Posted
26 January 2023
Japan hunts person who faxed bomb threats to schools
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Asia
Posted
26 January 2023
Witness History. Japanese death row guard. Audio, 9 minutes
Yoshikuni Noguchi was a prison guard in Japan and witnessed the hanging of a prisoner
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Japan on the brink due to falling birth rate - PM
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Asia
Posted
23 January 2023
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
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Asia
Posted
20 January 2023
Japan inflation rate jumps to fresh 41-year high
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Business
Posted
20 January 2023
The art school reject who became a leading glass artist
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Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland
Posted
16 January 2023
Japan to release radioactive water into sea this year
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Asia
Posted
13 January 2023
Fashion giant Uniqlo to raise pay by up to 40%
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Business
Posted
11 January 2023
Worshippers plunge into ice bath to mark new year. Video, 00:01:21
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Asia
Posted
8 January 2023
Innovation vital to Welsh business, says Sony boss
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Wales
Posted
4 January 2023
Evil Does Not Exist. Video, 101 minutes
A remote rural Japanese community battles an unscrupulous developer.
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BBC Four
Available for 10 months
Dogecoin dog makes miraculous recovery
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Asia
Posted
30 December 2022
Japan's inflation rate hits 41-year high
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Business
Posted
23 December 2022
Japan store Donki mascot survives axe after uproar
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Business
Posted
21 December 2022
Pokemon to go on without Ash and Pikachu
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Entertainment & Arts
Posted
16 December 2022
Japan backs biggest defence overhaul since WWII
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Asia
Posted
16 December 2022
The Documentary Podcast. Asylums of Japan: Makiko's story. Audio, 28 minutes
What is being done to change Japanese attitudes toward mental health?
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
UK, Italy and Japan team up for new fighter jet
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UK
Posted
9 December 2022
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Japan court upholds ban on same-sex marriage
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Asia
Posted
30 November 2022
Witness History. The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1947, thousands of Japanese people were taken from their island homes by Soviet troops
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year