January 17, 2018

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HEADLINES

Noon news

  • January 17, 2018
  • , All TV networks
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HEADLINES

Morning news

  • January 17, 2018
  • , All newspapers and TV networks
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INTERNATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL

Japan, U.S., S. Korea vow to maximize pressure on N. Korea

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 5:04 p.m.
  • English Press

INTERNATIONAL

U.S. urges Tokyo, Seoul not to let comfort women row hit cooperation

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 1:33 p.m.
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INTERNATIONAL

Japan rejects S. Korea’s call for additional measures on comfort women

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 7:08 a.m.
  • English Press

INTERNATIONAL

Former envoy to U.S. advocates participation in U.S. Deep Space Gateway project

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Yomiuri , p. 11
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INTERNATIONAL

Presidents Trump, Xi speak by phone

  • January 17, 2018
  • , All national papers
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INTERNATIONAL

Foreign ministers from 20 nations gather in Vancouver to discuss DPRK

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri, Nikkei
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INTERNATIONAL

Abe expresses Japan’s support for Serbia’s efforts to join EU

  • January 16, 2018
  • , All national papers evening edition
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INTERNATIONAL

Abe confirms with Romanian leader cooperation against DPRK

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Mainichi, Nikkei, Sankei
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INTERNATIONAL

Japan, Romania agree to promote Japanese firms’ investment

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 10:16 a.m.
  • English Press

INTERNATIONAL

Japan’s young bureaucrats, China’s elite students to resume exchange

  • January 15, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 07:00 a.m.
  • English Press

INTERNATIONAL

Yomiuri’s exclusive interview with Vietnamese President

  • January 13, 2018
  • , Yomiuri , p. 7
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INTERNATIONAL

N. Korea using ships from other nations to get its hands on fuel

  • January 16, 2018
  • , The Asahi Shimbun , 02:20 p.m.
  • English Press

INTERNATIONAL

Editorial: With Abe’s eastern Europe visits, Japan should strategically expand diplomacy

  • January 16, 2018
  • , The Japan News , 07:36 p.m.
  • English Press

INTERNATIONAL

Column: Nikai’s visits to China and the U.S.-China relationship

  • January 14, 2018
  • , Sankei , p. 1
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ECONOMY

MAFF revises estimates of TPP’s economic effects

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Yomiuri , p. 9
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ECONOMY

Japan’s largest business lobby seeks 3% pay hike as “social demand”

  • January 16, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 04:36 p.m.
  • English Press

ECONOMY

U.S.-Japan nuclear pact automatically extended

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Asahi, Yomiuri
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ECONOMY

Gist of Keidanren report on wage negotiation policy for 2018

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Mainichi , p. 3
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ECONOMY

Economy Minister Seko calls for renewing Japan’s oil interest in Abu Dhabi

  • January 16, 2018
  • , Nikkei , p. 5
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ECONOMY

ECONOMY

Cartoon: Abe’s blind spot

  • January 16, 2018
  • , Akahata , p. 2
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SECURITY

SECURITY

Japan to update principles on plutonium to seek cuts in stockpile

  • January 16, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 8:05 p.m.
  • English Press

SECURITY

Tsushima eyed as evacuation site in Korea contingency

  • January 16, 2018
  • , The Japan News , 08:44 p.m.
  • English Press

SECURITY

SECURITY

NHK issues erroneous online bulletin on North Korean missile launch

  • January 17, 2018
  • , All national papers
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POLITICS

Ruling parties to adjust Diet schedule for Abe to go to Pyeongchang

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Kyodo News , 5:31 p.m.
  • English Press

POLITICS

Prime minister’s schedule on Jan. 15-16, 2018

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Nikkei , p. 4
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POLITICS

Rupture of Party of Hope “imminent” amid moves to cooperate with DP

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Yomiuri , p. 4
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POLITICS

Abe’s party sees removing constitutional military ban as infeasible

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Nikkei Asian Review , 4:02 a.m.
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POLITICS

Kuryu promoted to NPA head

  • January 12, 2018
  • , Nikkei evening edition , p. 3
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POLITICS

Foreign Minister Kono focuses on Middle East diplomacy

  • January 14, 2018
  • , Yomiuri , p. 3
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POLITICS

Gov’t mulls online voting in national elections for citizens overseas

  • January 11, 2018
  • , Yomiuri evening edition , Lead story
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OPINION POLLS

54% against constitutional amendment under Abe administration, Kyodo News poll

  • January 15, 2018
  • , Tokyo Shimbun , Lead story
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OPINION POLLS

Kyodo News opinion poll & results from Tokyo Shimbun

  • January 15, 2018
  • , Tokyo Shimbun , p. 2
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OPINION POLLS

Trend in average cabinet support rate, Saitama University Social Survey Research Center

  • January 17, 2018
  • , Saitama University Social Survey Research Center
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SCIENCE

Universities to monitor radiation levels

  • January 16, 2018
  • , The Japan News , 08:03 p.m.
  • English Press

SOCIETY

Discoveries of lost cash on the rise

  • January 16, 2018
  • , NHK
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SOCIETY

Refugee recognition rate in 2016

  • January 13, 2018
  • , Yomiuri , p. 3
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