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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

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TSUKIJI MARKET FALLOUT Poll: Koike’s support rate falls to 59% in tight assembly raceJune 26, 2017 The support rate for Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has plunged amid the neck-and-neck election race for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.
POLITICALLY SENSITIVE Touchy topics out of bounds for UNESCO World Memory recordJune 26, 2017 UNESCO has decided not to consider politically sensitive nominations for its Memory of the World Register, which seems to rule out inclusion of Japan’s pacifist Constitution as well as an incident in which dozens of Japanese were killed in China in 1937.

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