HOKKAIDO
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IWATE
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AKITA
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MIYAGI
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YAMAGATA
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FUKUSHIMA
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TOCHIGI
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GUNMA
20080118 Japanese youth help compatriots embrace diversity
SAITAMA
20100513 Tokyo Bonsai Museum Treats Tiny Trees Like Works of Art
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CHIBA
20040408 Home study gives ‘freedom’
20080325 In Japan, take the family out to the ballgame
IBARAKI
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KANAGAWA
20090828 Japan: Cultural shifts in spa etiquette
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20190627 At G20, activists urge Abe to end coal as Japan keeps burning it
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YAMANASHI
2009428 Japan: Farm women go online
20171213 Nanjing Massacre anniversary shows Japan’s struggle with its past
NIIGATA
20170306 Japan’s nuclear refugees living in limbo
NAGANO
20170811 Retirement? No thanks. In ‘graying’ Japan, these women are just getting started
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ISHIKAWA
20250729 Disaster relief volunteers in Japan are helping to entrench a culture of compassion
AICHI
20090410 Japan’s culture of not spending crimps economic rebound
20120902 In Japan, better with age
20190804 Australia wins World Cosplay Championship title in Japan
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KYOTO
20190817 Anime fans mourn victims of Kyoto Animation arson attack in Japan
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OSAKA
20040204 A defender for Japan’s battered women
20090519 Japan: A booming ‘Koreatown’
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HYOGO
20150410 Shizuyo Yoshitomi started a radio station to help immigrants
HIROSHIMA
20030207 Japanese voice strong doubts about Iraq war
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NAGASAKI
20150808 Atomic bomb victims urge Japan to own up to wartime atrocities
FUKUOKA
20090710 Japan: Sensei of post-marital arts
KUMAMOTO
20180219 In Japan, baby-at-work fuss highlights deeper issue: few women in politics
OKINAWA
20040325 U.S. base’s transfer on hold
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20050502 War memories drive Okinawa’s most passionate peace activist
20061027 Okinawa projects have high costs, but low returns
20071023 Japan revises its history texts
20080205 Ruling to protect dugong could put Northern Okinawa aid at risk
20100521 Okinawans weary of US-Japan talks on military base
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20141117 Tokyo’s plans for Okinawa stumble after poll defeat
LOUISIANA, US
20160324 A retired lawyer opens first US slavery museum with $8.6 million of his money
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
20140905 Yoon Mee-hyang helps Korea’s World War II sex slaves tell their stories
SAN MANUEL, PHILIPPINES
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