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This shows the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan in April 2021. Japanese nuclear safety regulators lifted an operational ban Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, imposed on Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, also known as TEPCO, the operator behind the Fukushima plant that ended in disaster, allowing the company to resume preparations for restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, a separate plant, after a 12-year stoppage. (Kyodo News via AP)

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TEPCO's operational ban is lifted, putting it one step closer to restarting reactors in Niigata
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Wed,12/27/23-1:54AM , 144 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear safety regulators lifted an operational ban Wednesday imposed on a nuclear plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, the operator behind the Fukushima plant that ended in disaster, allowing the company to resume preparations for restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after more than 10 years.
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, greets Indonesia's President Joko Widodo upon arrival for the opening session of ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit Meeting at the Hotel Okura Tokyo in Tokyo Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

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Japan and ASEAN bolster ties at a summit focused on security and economy amid tensions with China
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Sat,12/16/23-7:10PM , 73 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Leaders from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at a special summit in Tokyo on Sunday, adopted a joint vision that emphasizes security and economic cooperation while respecting the rule of law, amid
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Rina Gonoi, former member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces, attends the press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Tokyo. A Japanese court on Tuesday convicted three former soldiers in a sexual assault case that authorities had dropped until Gonoi came forward demanding a reinvestigation and prompting a military-wide harassment probe. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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She won her sexual assault case. Now she hopes the Japanese military changes so others don't suffer
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Wed,12/13/23-4:57AM , 78 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Rina Gonoi came forward in summer 2022 to demand a reinvestigation of the case that authorities dropped nearly a year earlier, saying the sexual assault caused her to give up her military career.
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FILE -In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, Aviation Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Nicholas Hawkins, signals an MV-22 Osprey to land on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on May 17, 2019. When the U.S. military took the extraordinary step of grounding its fleet of V-22 Ospreys this week, it wasn't reacting just to the recent deadly crash of the aircraft off the coast of Japan. The aircraft has had a long list of problems in its short history. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Amber Smalley/U.S. Navy via AP)

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Divers recover the seventh of 8 crew members killed in crash of a US military Osprey off Japan
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Sun,12/10/23-8:53AM , 130 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Divers on Sunday recovered the remains of the seventh of the eight crew members from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed off southern Japan during a training mission.
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