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Yurina Kaneko delves into the plushie subculture to explore a prevalent sense of isolation among Japan’s youth in her first directorial feature.

Following the announcement of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on March 3, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, according to a BBC report, has confirmed that the government is planning to release 1.3 million cubic meters of contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.

Some equipment that Japan will use to discharge the nuclear contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant was put into operation for the first time on Friday shortly after passing an inspection by the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority.

China on Monday urged Japan again not to arbitrarily start discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the Pacific Ocean.

China on Monday urged Japan again not to arbitrarily start discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the Pacific Ocean.

Police believe the murder was part of a string of robberies across Japan that is believed to have been coordinated by four men who were deported from the Philippines earlier this month.

Two men were arrested on Feb. 22 on suspicion of carrying out a fatal robbery at a 90-year-old woman's home in western Tokyo in January, a case believed to be linked to a string of burglaries seen across the country over the past year or so.

Police on Feb. 22 arrested four men over a deadly home burglary in western Tokyo last month, a case that solidified a Philippine connection with a string of robberies committed in Japan.

Four men are arrested on suspicion of carrying out a fatal robbery at a 90-year-old woman's home in western Tokyo in January, a case believed to be linked to a string of burglaries seen across the country over the past year or so.

TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): In three years, unsuspecting victims in Japan lost more than six billion yen (US$45 million) through phone scams. Then a spate of at least 50 violent robberies hit 14 prefectures across the country.