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　昨年は休校になったり、オンライン授業が始まったりで、受験生も大学生も落ち着かない日々を過ごした。昨年の大学1年生はコロナ禍によって、入学当初からオンラインを中心に授業が実施された。首都圏の大学では、前期だけでなく後期もオンラインになるところが多かった。

　近畿では和歌山県のみで自生が確認されていたラン科の希少種「ニラバラン」が５月下旬、兵庫県姫路市内で見つかった。手柄山温室植物園（姫路市手柄）によると、兵庫県内

2021年ブルーリボン賞・ローレル賞決定｜鉄道ニュース2021年5月26日掲載

兵庫県尼崎市議選（３０日告示、６月６日投票）の勝利へ日本共産党街頭演説が２３日、同市のＪＲ尼崎駅北で開かれ、田村智子副委員長が６人全員の勝利を訴えました。同市議選は定数４２に立候補予定５７人の多数激戦

news Heavy rain evacuation orders issued for parts of Osaka, Kyoto prefs in west Japan The Mainichi © The Mainichi The water level at the city of Kyotos famous Kamo River is seen rising due to heavy rain at 9:55 a.m. on May 21, 2021. Barricade tape reading "Keep Out" is seen at the rivers edge. (Mainichi/Daiki Takikawa) Amid heavy downpours, evacuation orders were issued on the morning of May 21 for four municipalities in western Japans Kinki region. The Japan Meteorological ...

May 16, 2021 The rainy season this year is beginning for some western and central parts of the Japanese archipelago weeks earlier than usual, recording the earliest starting date ever in some of these regions since statistics became available in 1951. According to preliminary figures released by the Meteorological Agency, the Kinki region, which includes Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto, and other surrounding prefectures, likely entered the rainy season Sunday, 25 days earlier than last year. Th...

Masako Akagi speaks to reporters in Osaka on May 6 while holding a document she received from the government over the record left by her late husband. (The Asahi Shimbun) The government has acknowledged the existence of a key document related to the Finance Ministry’s falsification of official documents over the dubious sale of state-owned land to Moritomo Gakuen, a private educational institution. The “Akagi file,” as the document is known, refers to a record of events kept by Toshio Aka...

Japans Information Disclosure Law, which vests the sovereign public with a legally enforceable right of access to central government files, took effect on April 1, 2001. In what was believed to be a "last-minute rush" to circumvent this new system, many government ministries and agencies destroyed mountains of official documents during fiscal 2000 that ended March 31, 2001. According to findings later released by Access-Info Clearinghouse Japan, an incorporated nonprofit organization, the volum...

news Editorial: Japan govt urged to fully disclose tell-all file in school land sale scandal The Mainichi © The Mainichi The Japanese government has admitted that there does exist documents reportedly chronicling bureaucrats tampering of Finance Ministry papers approving the heavily discounted sale of state land to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen. The documents were compiled by Toshio Akagi, then an employee of the Finance Ministrys Kinki Local Finance Bureau. He l...