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The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Japan PM willing to help ensure Hormuz safety but tells Trump legal limits
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday that Japan is ready to contribute to the safety of the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran intensifies, while explaining Tokyo's legal constraints on sending ships from its defense forces to the region.
Takaichi told reporters after her meeting at the White House with Trump that she told the U.S. leader "in detail what Japan can do and cannot do" from a legal perspective under the country's war-renouncing Constitution.
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Japan, U.S. unveil 3 new business projects worth $73 billion total
WASHINGTON - Japan and the United States on Thursday unveiled a plan to build small modular nuclear reactors as one of three new business projects worth a total of $73 billion under Tokyo's $550 billion commitment made last year in exchange for tariff relief.
The second batch of joint projects, announced after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, also includes the construction of natural gas generation facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas.
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Survivors, kin mark 31 yrs since AUM sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway
TOKYO - People whose lives were upended by the 1995 deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult marked the 31st anniversary on Friday, with their pain still unhealed despite growing worries about public memory of the event fading.
Shizue Takahashi, who lost her husband, then a deputy stationmaster at Kasumigaseki Station, was among those who offered flowers and prayers. Station staff observed a moment of silence at around 8 a.m., when the worst terrorist attack on Japan occurred during the morning rush hour
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Operator searched after 2 on capsized boats die in Okinawa
NAHA, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard on Friday searched the premises of a local group in Okinawa, southwestern Japan, after two of its boats capsized and killed two people in waters near the controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base.
The local branch of the coast guard suspects professional negligence resulting in death and injury on the part of the group, after a high schooler and the captain of one of the boats were killed in the incident earlier this week.
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New exhibition room opens at Akasaka Palace displaying historical artifacts
TOKYO - A new exhibition room at the Akasaka Palace state guest house opened to the public on Friday, displaying amenities once used by foreign dignitaries and panels tracing the estate's history and ties to the imperial family.
The gallery at the neo-baroque state guest house in Tokyo is part of a project marking the 100th year since the start of the Showa Period (1926-1989). It marks the first time that amenities used by visiting dignitaries have been exhibited.
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Football: Suzuki nets, assists as Freiburg reach Europa League q'finals
FREIBURG, Germany - Japan attacker Yuito Suzuki scored a goal and set up another as Freiburg swept Genk aside 5-1 at home in the Europa League round of 16 second leg on Thursday, going through 5-2 on aggregate.
On the day he got his first Japan call-up in half a year ahead of their away friendlies against Scotland and England this month, Suzuki made his presence felt against Genk who had his fellow national team attacker Junya Ito coming off the bench in the 69th minute.
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N. Korea's Kim oversees drill deploying drones, new tanks
BEIJING - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday oversaw a drill of infantry troops and tank units featuring drones and new armored vehicles held at a military training base in Pyongyang, state-run media said, as a U.S.-South Korea joint exercise ended that day.
Kim rode a tank together with his daughter, believed to be named Kim Ju Ae and in her teens, as he inspected the drill. During the exercise, attack drones struck the enemy's command base and anti-armor firing positions on the basis of real-time reconnaissance data, the official Korean Central News Agency said Friday.
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Trump compares Iran war with Japan's 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday invoked Japan's 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to defend his decision to keep allies in the dark about the U.S. initial strikes on Iran.
During a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington, Trump said he believes Japan, unlike the NATO security alliance, is now "stepping up to the plate" over the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, without elaborating.
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Video: First footage of hole at bottom of No. 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex
