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We have started to collect the most important news related to Japan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Veteran Japanese politician Ichiro Ozawa, who resigned from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) over plans to raise sales tax, forms a new opposition party.
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A baby giant panda born at a zoo in Tokyo last week, and widely celebrated by the Japanese public, has died.
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A rare baby panda, born amid much excitement in a Japanese zoo last week, has died.
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ChinaJapan summons China's ambassador to protest against the appearance of Chinese patrol boats near a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea.
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Japan's current account surplus shrinks substantially as Japan's energy imports hurt its trade position.
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AfghanistanDonors at a conference on Afghanistan pledge to give $16bn in civilian aid over four years, to safeguard its future after foreign forces leave.
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Japan's financial regulator clears cameramaker Olympus's former auditors of negligence, but tells them to improve their supervision.
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But will Japan be able to learn lessons from nuclear disaster?
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MalaysiaFacebook has bought into a fibre-optic undersea cabling that to improve connectivity between Malaysia, Korea, and Japan
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The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster", a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report.
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The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster", a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report.
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A giant panda gives birth at Tokyo's Ueno zoo, after being declared pregnant just days ago.
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Japan's competition watchdog approves the planned merger of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange.
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South KoreaSouth Korea proposes resuming whaling as part scientific research programmes similar to Japan's, in a move widely criticised at the IWC.
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Japan's biggest supermarket operator, Aeon, says profits more than doubled to 13.1bn yen ($164m; £104m) in the three months to the end of May.
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United StatesSales of Japanese carmakers Toyota and Honda surge in the US in June as they continue to recover from last year's quake and tsunami.
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Japan's All Nippon Airways says it plans to raise as much as $2.6bn (£1.6bn) by selling new shares to fund its expansion plans.
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United StatesJapanese electronics maker Toshiba gets $87m (£55m) fine for conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels in the US.
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RussiaRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev angers Japan by paying another visit to the disputed Kuril Islands.
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Micron Technologies agrees a deal to buy embattled Japanese chipmaker Elpida in a deal worth 200bn yen ($2.5bn; £1.6bn).
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Ichiro Ozawa and his faction resign from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, amid a bitter row over the sales tax rise.
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Japanese manufacturers are less pessimistic about business conditions, the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) Tankan survey shows.
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Hundreds of protesters gather as Japan restarts the first nuclear reactor since the crisis at Fukushima last year.
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North KoreaThe South Korean government abruptly postpones signing a military intelligence agreement with Japan in response to anti-Japanese sentiment.
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Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the Fukushima nuclear power plant, agree to the nationalisation of the company.
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Japan's lower house backs PM Yoshihiko Noda's controversial plan to double sales tax, but the vote lays bare a deep rift in the ruling party.
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Japan sells seafood caught off Fukushima's coast for the first time since the nuclear crisis, but offerings are limited due to contamination.
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Manchester United sign Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa from Borussia Dortmund for an undisclosed fee.
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A rare cloud appeared near Mount Fuji after a strong typhoon swept through Japan.
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VietnamVietnam and Japan have opened a centre for research into rare earth minerals to challenge China's monopoly of supply.
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Sika deer living in the forests of Japan listen in to macaque monkey chatter to find top foraging spots, say scientists.
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Japan's exports rise the most in 17 months in May easing concerns about the impact of a global slowdown on the Japanese economy.
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Tesco is to exit Japan in a two-stage process that will first see it sell a half-stake in its Japanese business to the country's Aeon group.
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Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since all the country's plants were closed following last year's Fukushima crisis.
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Japan is to restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since plants were shut down after the last year's Fukushima crisis.
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Japanese police have arrested the final fugitive they were seeking in connection with a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 13 people in 1995.
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Japanese police arrest the last fugitive of the Aum Shinrikyo cult wanted for the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, ending a 17-year manhunt.
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The latest reboot of the Spider-Man film series premieres in Tokyo, with actor Andrew Garfield making his debut in the title role.
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Blow darting is a rapidly growing sport among Japanese pensioners.
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Japan's core machinery orders, a key indicator of capital expenditure, rise more than had been forecast in April, boosting the economy.
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AngolaThe consultancy firm Mercer tracks the living costs in cities around the globe,and has found that Tokyo is now more expensive than Luanda.
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AngolaTokyo becomes the world's most expensive city for foreign staff to live in, overtaking the Angolan capital Luanda, according to research.
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Dan Simmons, Richard Taylor and Spencer Kelly pick out some highlights from E3 including the Japanese social network that is bursting out into the wider world.
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Japan must restart two nuclear reactors to protect the country's economy, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says in a televised broadcast.
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Thousands of Japanese police are mobilised to hunt down the last fugitive from the doomsday cult behind the 1995 gas attacks on the Tokyo subway.
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Olympus, the Japanese camera maker recovering from an accounting scandal, announces a five-year plan that includes cutting 2,700 jobs.
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Japan's economy performed better than had previously been estimated in the first three months of the year, revised figures show.
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Pacific Ocean, United StatesA huge concrete dock torn from a Japanese port by last year's tsunami washes up some 8,000 km (5,000 miles) away in the US state of Oregon.
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United StatesA huge metal dock that was swept away by last year's tsunami in Japan has washed ashore in the US state of Oregon.
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People living in Tokyo, the world's most populated city, are turning to compact living to overcome the problem of expensive and scarce housing.
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Manchester United agree a deal reported to be worth an initial £12m to sign Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa from Borussia Dortmund.
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Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffles his cabinet in a bid to gain opposition support for a bill to increase sales tax.
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More than 800 crown-of-thorns starfish found on a single beach in Japan in January stranded themselves because they starved, say researchers.
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