Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have paid their respects at the mausoleum of Emperor Jinmu prior to the Emperor's abdication on April 30.
Japan's government has investigated a university in Tokyo where hundreds of foreign students remain unaccounted for.
A South Korean government agency is planning to conduct an ocean survey using underwater drones near the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan.
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Key words : Emperor paid
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Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have paid their respects at the mausoleum of Emperor Jinmu. The visit was one of the ceremonies leading up to the Emperor's abdication on April 30.
The Emperor and Empress were in Kyoto on Monday before traveling by train to Kashihara City in Nara Prefecture on Tuesday. The couple were then driven to the tomb of the legendary first emperor.
Dressed in formal attire and guided by an Imperial Household Agency official, the Emperor walked slowly to the altar. There, he offered a sprig of a sacred tree and bowed deeply. The Empress followed suit.
The Emperor previously visited the mausoleum along with the Empress in December 1990 to report on his accession to the throne.
Key words : government investigated
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Japan's government has investigated a university in Tokyo where hundreds of foreign students remain unaccounted for.
Officials from the education and justice ministries on Tuesday inspected the offices at Tokyo University and Graduate School of Social Welfare's campus in Kita ward.
The whereabouts of about 700 students enrolled there for the 2018 school year are unknown. They are from countries including Vietnam, Nepal and Myanmar.
Education ministry officials say they plan to ask university staff about the enrollment situation. They will also confirm whether lecture plans submitted to the government were appropriate.
The university says all the students came from Japanese language schools in Japan. It says they were registered as researchers instead of regular students because their language abilities were insufficient. It says it has expelled all the students.
Education Minister Masahiko Shibayama says some universities may have accepted foreign students who don't have sufficient language skills as a business to extend their resident status in Japan.
Shibayama said the education and justice ministries will carefully look into the problem and issue instructions for necessary improvements.
He added he will work with prefectural governments that have jurisdiction over language and technical schools to learn how this situation occurred.
Key words : Japanese court
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A Japanese court has ordered the government and Tokyo Electric Power Company to compensate about 20 people who evacuated to Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident.
The Matsuyama District Court handed down the ruling on Tuesday.
Twenty-five people of 10 households had demanded that the state and the plant's operator pay them a total of 140 million yen, or 1.3 million dollars. They said they lost the foundation of their livelihood and suffered mental anguish.
The presiding judge said that if the government's now-defunct nuclear safety agency had ordered TEPCO in 2002 to estimate the impacts of tsunami, it would have taken anti-flood measures based on the possibility of a more-than-10-meter-high tsunami hitting the plant.
That year, the government publicized a long-term assessment of seismic activity around the region.
The court ordered the defendants to pay a total of about 245,000 dollars to all but two plaintiffs who were born after the evacuation.
The ruling is the eighth in group lawsuits filed against the state and TEPCO by people affected by the nuclear accident. The government was found liable in six of the cases at lower courts.
Key words : evacuation order
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An evacuation order in place since the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011 will be partially lifted in one of two municipalities where the facility is located.
State minister of industry Yoshihiko Isozaki told reporters on Tuesday that radiation levels have fallen significantly. He said as a result, starting April 10 two districts representing about 40 percent of Okuma Town will be excluded from the evacuation order.
374 people or about 3.6 percent of the town's population have registered addresses in the districts.
Okuma town hall has been operating in a temporary facility about 100 kilometers away. A new town hall will open in one of the districts on April 14 and begin operations on May 7.
Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe said he is proud that Okuma town has finally taken this first step. He said he will take measures to create a comfortable place to live.
Fukushima vice governor Masaaki Suzuki said this is just the beginning of reconstruction. He said it is important to have facilities in place so residents who return can feel safe.
Key words : south ocean
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A South Korean government agency is planning to conduct an ocean survey using underwater drones near the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan. South Korea controls the islands. Japan claims them.
The agency posted an outline of the project online to recruit bidders.
It says the survey will be conducted around the Takeshima Islands, which South Korea calls Dokdo, as well as around Ulleungdo Island located to the west.
Researchers will study the topography of the seabed and analyze currents and changes in sea temperature, using unmanned submersibles.
The agency says it will allocate about 1.8 million dollars for the survey to be completed within this year.
The Japanese government has lodged a protest with South Korea to stop the survey. It says the Takeshima Islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory and South Korea is illegally occupying them.
Key words : south labor postpone
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South Korean plaintiffs who won a wartime labor suit against Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal say they will postpone selling off the company's assets. They have also made a fresh request for compensation talks.
South Korea's Supreme Court last year awarded compensation to the plaintiffs who claim they were forced to work for the company during World War Two.
The plaintiffs visited the company's head office in Tokyo last month to convey their plan to sell off the seized assets.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for the plaintiffs announced they have seized stock worth about 970 million won, or 855,000 dollars, but that the sell-off will be postponed.
The lawyers stressed they may sell shares for cash because of the plaintiffs' advanced ages, urging the Japanese and South Korean governments to bear this in mind.
Japan's government has characterized the plaintiffs' plan to sell the stock as extremely serious.
Tokyo has repeatedly urged the South Korean government to discuss the matter based on an agreement reached in 1965, when the two countries normalized relations. Tokyo maintains the deal settled the issue of compensation claims completely.
Also on Tuesday, another group of plaintiffs announced that a district court in the city of Ulsan has approved the seizure of assets of Japanese machinery maker Fujikoshi.
Fujikoshi was ordered by a South Korean court in January to compensate plaintiffs in the wartime labor case.
The seizure will target stocks owned by a joint venture of Fujikoshi and a South Korean company valued at 765 million won, or about 675,000 dollars.
The Fujikoshi case is the third in which a South Korean court allowed plaintiffs to seize a Japanese company's assets. But it is the first in which the actual seizure was approved before the ruling is finalized.
Key words : ground self-defense
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Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force units have been deployed to the country's southwestern islands to improve emergency response in the region.
An inauguration ceremony for the launch of a 400-personnel patrol unit was held on Tuesday, in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture.
Tomofusa Harada, head of the 15th Brigade based in Okinawa, said he wants them to unite and be able to respond quickly in any situation.
In Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, a GSDF missile unit of 500 personnel was established on the same day to respond to possible threats from ships and aircraft.
The ministry is also planning to deploy a missile unit in Miyakojima and a patrol unit in Ishigakijima.
Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters on Tuesday that he intends to increase defense capabilities and deterrence in the area. He described it as Japan's frontline of defense, which spans about 1,200 kilometers.
Iwaya added the move will provide coverage in the southwest and also enable authorities to respond quickly in the event of a natural disaster.
The GSDF has been strengthening its defense capabilities in the Nansei Islands, as China expands its maritime activities in the region.
Chinese patrol ships have repeatedly entered Japanese waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Japan controls the islands. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory. China and Taiwan claim them.
Key words : international election
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Key words : middle eastern
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Middle Eastern countries are reacting sharply against the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
US President Donald Trump signed a decree on Monday officially recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Israel seized the area from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on state television on Monday that no matter how many years have passed, it does not change the fact that the Golan Heights is occupied Syrian territory.
He also said recognition by the US will lead to its own isolation.
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit also condemned the US decision.
A statement by the league on Monday says the decision does not change the legal status of the area in any way.
It says the Golan Heights remains occupied Syrian territory, and Israeli sovereignty over the area has not been recognized by other countries or by a UN Security Council resolution in 1981.
The statement says the Arab League strongly supports Syria's claim to the area, and that the league's stance has been endorsed by Arab nations.
It says Arab League leaders will reaffirm their position when they meet in Tunisia later this month.
Key words : shibuya
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Central Tokyo's Shibuya Ward is set to install over 400 more security cameras in parks and busy areas ahead of next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Shibuya expects many visitors from around Japan and abroad during the Games, so the ward has decided to drastically increase the number of security cameras. There are currently nearly 500 cameras.
Ward officials plan to install 415 more cameras in parks, shopping districts and along school routes in the next fiscal year starting in April.
During last year's Halloween festivities, many young people became intoxicated and caused disturbances in central Shibuya. Some people were arrested.
Ward officials hope the cameras will help prevent crime and other problems, while keeping Shibuya a lively place.
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