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TOKYO -- Japanese health minister Kenichiro Ueno on March 23 approved adding "preventive administration" to the authorized ...

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In reconstruction efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck 15 years ago, Japan has poured some 42 ...

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Japan's core consumer prices in February rose 1.6 percent from a year earlier, climbing less than 2 percent for the first ...