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Journalist @AFP Agence France-Presse in Tokyo covering general news. Previously covered the health ministry & the parliament. Occasionally @AFPFactCheck

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Natsuko Fukue
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cute💗
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Totoro and his friends asked, “Will you take us to London?” Paddington said, “Of course!! Let’s go to London together.”👍😄
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AFP News Agency
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Japanese governor calls for help from the military to deal with a spate of deadly bear attacks, which have risen to record levels this year in Japan https://t.co/RkriOnliMK
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AFP News Agency
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🇯🇵 A Japanese court has handed down an eight-year jail sentence to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous. ➡️ https://t.co/dNITLHWW7L
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AFP News Agency
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🇯🇵 Sanae Takaichi was named Japan's first woman prime minister Tuesday, with the social conservative saying she wanted "candid discussions" with US President Donald Trump just days ahead of his visit to Tokyo. ➡️ https://t.co/4Po6o4jHzd
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#BREAKING Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, famous for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, media reports said @AFP
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The Nobel Prize
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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Beautiful sunset as a typhoon approaches Tokyo's remote islands
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盛大な夕焼け空。 台風22号から広がってきた高い空の雲が焼けています。
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🩺 Le prix Nobel de médecine 2025 a été décerné aux chercheurs américains Mary E. Brunkow et Fred Ramsdell et au Japonais Shimon Sakaguchi pour leur recherche sur la façon dont le corps contrôle le système immunitaire.
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The Nobel Prize
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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AFP News Agency
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🇯🇵 Japan heralded on Saturday the coming-of-age of Prince Hisahito with an elaborate ceremony at the Imperial Palace, where a succession crisis is brewing. The nephew of Emperor Naruhito is the second in line to become emperor after his father. ➡️ https://t.co/ba253XBxap
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Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, one of the world's biggest by circulation, is suing US-based AI firm Perplexity for allegedly "free-riding" on its content on its search engine https://t.co/QJVOm5tEFG @AFP
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Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, one of the world's biggest by circulation, is suing US-based AI firm Perplexity for allegedly "free-riding" on its content on its search engine.
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AFP News Agency
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Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors it unleashed https://t.co/JfqvhoOKNd
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AFP News Agency
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How do tsunamis form? AFP Graphic explaining how tsunamis are generated by quakes below or near the ocean floor
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AFP News Agency
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#BREAKING Japan upgrades tsunami warning to 3 metres. Japan Meteorological Agency says "tsunamis will strike repeatedly. Do not enter the sea or approach the coast until the warning is lifted"
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AFP News Agency
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has denied discussing his resignation with party elders, as media speculation about his future https://t.co/igXiovGpZO
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AFP News Agency
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Trump says US has agreed a "massive" trade deal with Japan that will include a 15% tariff. Japanese leader Ishiba says he needs to examine the details of the deal before commenting https://t.co/2bz2n4K6Sc
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Japan's education minister reacted angrily Friday after the arrests of two teachers who allegedly shared photos showing girls' underwear in a group chat that reportedly included nearly 10 elementary and junior high school teachers https://t.co/SXCvTTN5C1 @AFP
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AFP News Agency
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#BREAKING Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment
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AFP News Agency
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🇯🇵 VIDEO: Japan's high-tech sunscreens tap into skincare craze When YouTuber Hannah Price set out to compare Japanese and Australian sunscreen, she wasn't expecting her deep dive into the subject to rack up over two million views, showing the growing interest in skincare
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A Japanese company lost contact with its Moon lander Resilience during a daunting final descent, dealing a blow to its bid to make history two years after a prior mission ended in a crash https://t.co/yR7igHEsGX @AFP
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