Japan

Japanese court rules same-sex marriage ban is NOT unconstitutional in blow to gay rights campaignersA Japanese court ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage is not unconstitutionalThe court also rejected the complainants'…
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Top Gun: Maverick faces being banned in China after producers decided to restore the Taiwanese flag on the back of Tom Cruise's jacket in the new blockbuster.In the original 1986 classic, Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell wears a…
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A Japanese man who transforms into a dog using an ultra-realistic costume has said he hides his canine alter ego from his friends because he is worried they think it is weird.Toco spent two million Yen ($15,000) on a custom-made rough…
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A Japanese man who was accidentally paid £290,000 in Covid relief money intended for 463 low-income households has vanished after losing it all in a month through online gambling, the BBC reports.A government support scheme for those…
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A court has ordered a Japanese railway company to return 33p to a driver whose wages were docked because he was a minute late after his recent passing.The family of Hirofumi Wada, who was in his 50s and died of natural causes, received a…
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Netflix viewers have been moved to tears by a Japanese reality show that follows children as young as two while they attempt to complete everyday tasks without the help of their parents.Old Enough was originally released in Japan in 1990…
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Thousands of Ukrainians are being moved miles away from their homes and into remote regions of Russia, Kremlin documents claim.Refugees, said to be interrogated for hours and moved out in buses, are allegedly being sent to Chechnya, …
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Russian troops are forcibly deporting Ukrainians en-masse from the ruins of Mariupol to 'filtration camps' and then into Russia, officials have claimed, as they begged for humanitarian teams to be given access to the besieged city.Up to…
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