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- Education officials in Tokyo decided to change the date of next February’s high school entrance exams so the tests don’t fall on the same day as the Tokyo Marathon.
- After responding to a report of a hand grenade lying by the side of road, police in Kitakyushu called in a support team of 50 officers—only to discover that the device was an “authentic replica.”
- It was reported that officials at the environment ministry are drawing up guidelines for “bringing pets to shelters and temporary housing facilities in the event of a disaster.”
- Authorities in the town of Ono in Fukushima issued a residency card to popular doll Licca-chan as part of celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of a theme park devoted to the figure.
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- 1,633Number of Ainu whose bones have been dug up and collected by Japanese universities for “research purposes,” according to the education ministry
- 20,000Number of honeybees to be raised by construction firm Kajima Corp on a rooftop in Tokyo
- 31Rank of Japan (among 176 countries) in the “Mother’s Index,” compiled by Save the Children to assess the quality of life of moms around the world
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Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism.
Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a U.S. scholar as comparing Yasukuni Shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a section for Confederate Civil War dead.
“I am of a view that we can make a similar argument about Yasukuni, which enshrines the souls of those who lost their lives in the service of their country,” Abe told the policy magazine Foreign Affairs.
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