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                                <title><![CDATA[ Russia mulls joining China in banning Japanese seafood imports ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ So far this year, Russia has imported 118 tonnes of Japanese seafood. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ South Korea hosts Japan, China as US allies try to reassure Beijing ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The meeting aims in part to set the stage for the resumption of three-way summits among the countries' leaders, which were last held in 2019. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan receives 2 million visitors for third straight month in August ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Tourism to Japan nearly stopped for more than two years during the pandemic, but arrivals have risen since the government resumed visa-free travel and scrapped remaining Covid controls in May 2023. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan elevates Taiwan security ties in move likely to rile China ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ China has criticised Japan, the US and other Western nations for adopting what it calls a Cold War mentality. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan PM Kishida spoke about Fukushima water release with G20 leaders, official says ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Japan maintains that the water release is safe. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan broadcasters issue rare apologies for past silence over J-pop agency sex abuse ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ This comes after Japan's top talent agency Johnny & Associates apologised for decades of sexual abuses committed by its late founder. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan PM speaks to China's Li about radioactive water release ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Japan started releasing the water from the wrecked plant into the ocean last month, drawing strong criticism from China. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan launches 'moon sniper' lunar lander to space ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The launch comes two weeks after India became the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the unexplored lunar south pole. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China's economic gloom hangs over Japan's long-awaited recovery ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 01:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ China's downturn would leave Japan's export-reliant economy with little external support as aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate hikes cool growth in the US, another key driver of global activity. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan's 'moon sniper' to test precision landing – and Tokyo's space ambitions ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The mission is meant to demonstrate Japan's ability to put a lightweight, low-cost craft on the moon within 100m of a designated landing site using an advanced visual navigation system. ]]></description>
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