Miscarriage prompts Japan pledge
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Japan pledges to address the shortage of doctors after a woman in labour was turned away by eight hospitals.
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Tokyo - The parents of a 24-year-old Japanese traveller who was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq said on Sunday they hoped for peace in the insurgency-torn country and apologised for the trouble caused by the crisis.
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TOYKO, Japan -- North Korea has warned Japan that it would treat economic sanctions against the nation as a &quot;declaration of war&quot; as a row brews over the remains of abductees.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolts. Blame the system.
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Japan has protested to North Korea and threatened to cut food aid after an incident involving the ashes of a Japanese woman. Tokyo&#39;s has accused Pyongyang of handing over other people&#39;s ashes to prove the
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A top Japanese business leader expressed hope Monday that the impending betrothal of the emperor&#39;s only daughter would help bolster Japan&#39;s economy, now showing signs of a slowing recovery.
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Japan has been appealing for international help to secure the release of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants in Iraq and threatened with death.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a toddler  buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a  decade were unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister  on Thursday, but some small signs of normal life returned to  the quake-hit region.
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The birth of Princess Kiko's son ensures the continuation of the royal line. But the news shows how far women still have to go, even in modern Japan
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During a week of talks, Pyongyang sticks to its argument on the fate of 10 missing Japanese. Japanese delegates returned from Pyongyang on Monday with what North Korea says are personal belongings of missing
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Japan's Princess Kiko, pregnant with a   possible heir to the Chrysanthemum throne, is to give birth on   Wednesday, an official at the Imperial Household Agency said on   Friday.
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When a newborn baby girl was left in  Japan&#39;s controversial &quot;baby hatch&quot; last week, the child&#39;s life  may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents  were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday repeated his vow to keep about 550 troops in Iraq after the government confirmed that the decapitated body found on a street
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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Tokyo must keep a thaw in ties with China on track, the frontrunner to be Japan's next prime minister said on Sunday, while urging Beijing to better explain its ballooning military spending.
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Japan's new imperial baby has been named Hisahito in a traditional ceremony in hospital in the capital, Tokyo.
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Tokyo, Nov. 15: The news that Princess Sayako, will wed at 35 after years of hesitation was welcomed today by many in Japan who fear that sagging marriage and birth rates has left the country headed for a demographic crisis.