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Assassin’s Creed Red Female Protagonist Character Art Leaked by Ubisoft Writer
Assassin’s Creed Red’s female protagonist art has leaked online, showing a hooded figure wielding a katana. The image was spotted on Ubisoft writer Pierre Boudreau’s LinkedIn profile, which has since been changed. The game is set in feudal Japan and is reported to feature two protagonists, which also include an African refugee samurai who lea...
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First Female UN High Commissioner For Refugees Chief Dies At 92
The great-grand daughter of a pre-World War Two prime minister, Tsuyoshi Inukai, Sadako Ogata earned a doctoral degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and later served as Japan's special representative on Afghan reconstruction.
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Revelers To Honour Late Celebrities In 2016 'Era Of Chaos'
As 2016 draws to a close, many are bidding a weary adieu to a year of political surprises, prolonged conflicts, refugees and deaths of some famous people. A look at how people around the world are preparing to usher in the new year.
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Japan Backs Off Pregnancy Clause For Syria Refugees
A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria promised Wednesday to remove language from documents which implied that pregnant women are not welcome to apply.
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Japan Hit Over Pregnancy Clause In Syria Refugee Programme
A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria is under fire for implying that pregnant women are not welcome.
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Japan Accepted 27 Refugees Last Year, Rejected 99 Per Cent: Government
Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year and rejected almost all applications, officials said today, as rights groups urged the government to allow more people in.
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Japan, Wary Of Outsiders, Keeps Doors Closed To Refugees
For Mohammed, the perils of staying in Damascus crystalized when a sniper's bullet whizzed past his head while he and his cousins were on his rooftop, watching the Syrian air force bomb rebel forces.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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Japan Boosts Support for War Refugees From Syria, Iraq
Japan's prime minister said on Tuesday that his country would provide $1.56 billion to assist Syrians and Iraqis displaced by conflict and for building peace across the Middle East and Africa.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Headed To UN Meeting
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will attend a United Nations meeting next week, Tokyo said Friday, with plans to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin and reportedly announce support for Syrian refugees.
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US Lawmakers Sanction Greater Military Cooperation with Jordan
US lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would ramp up military cooperation with Jordan, including accelerated arms sales to a Middle East ally contending with growing threats from Islamist State (IS) extremism.
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2 Japanese Hostages: How Their Lives Got Intertwined
One is a freelance journalist respected for his reporting on refugees and children in war zones. The other is man who seems obsessed with guns and went to Syria to train with fighters.
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Japan's 'Butter Refugees' Cry Over Spilt Milk
Japanese shoppers are up in arms over a serious butter shortage that has forced Tokyo to resort to emergency imports, as some grocers limit sales to one block per customer.
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For many Fukushima evacuees, the truth is they won't be going home
For many of Japan's oldest nuclear refugees, all they want is to be allowed back to the homes they were forced to abandon.
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Ex-refugee seeks lost love 70 years on
It was more than 70 years ago that Gary Matzdorff, a Jewish refugee, escaped Nazi Germany for China and found love, only to lose his paramour and then have to flee the Communists.
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Assassin’s Creed Red Female Protagonist Character Art Leaked by Ubisoft Writer
Assassin’s Creed Red’s female protagonist art has leaked online, showing a hooded figure wielding a katana. The image was spotted on Ubisoft writer Pierre Boudreau’s LinkedIn profile, which has since been changed. The game is set in feudal Japan and is reported to feature two protagonists, which also include an African refugee samurai who lea...
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First Female UN High Commissioner For Refugees Chief Dies At 92
The great-grand daughter of a pre-World War Two prime minister, Tsuyoshi Inukai, Sadako Ogata earned a doctoral degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and later served as Japan's special representative on Afghan reconstruction.
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Revelers To Honour Late Celebrities In 2016 'Era Of Chaos'
As 2016 draws to a close, many are bidding a weary adieu to a year of political surprises, prolonged conflicts, refugees and deaths of some famous people. A look at how people around the world are preparing to usher in the new year.
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Japan Backs Off Pregnancy Clause For Syria Refugees
A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria promised Wednesday to remove language from documents which implied that pregnant women are not welcome to apply.
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Japan Hit Over Pregnancy Clause In Syria Refugee Programme
A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria is under fire for implying that pregnant women are not welcome.
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Japan Accepted 27 Refugees Last Year, Rejected 99 Per Cent: Government
Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year and rejected almost all applications, officials said today, as rights groups urged the government to allow more people in.
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Japan, Wary Of Outsiders, Keeps Doors Closed To Refugees
For Mohammed, the perils of staying in Damascus crystalized when a sniper's bullet whizzed past his head while he and his cousins were on his rooftop, watching the Syrian air force bomb rebel forces.
-
Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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Japan Boosts Support for War Refugees From Syria, Iraq
Japan's prime minister said on Tuesday that his country would provide $1.56 billion to assist Syrians and Iraqis displaced by conflict and for building peace across the Middle East and Africa.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Headed To UN Meeting
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will attend a United Nations meeting next week, Tokyo said Friday, with plans to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin and reportedly announce support for Syrian refugees.
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US Lawmakers Sanction Greater Military Cooperation with Jordan
US lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would ramp up military cooperation with Jordan, including accelerated arms sales to a Middle East ally contending with growing threats from Islamist State (IS) extremism.
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2 Japanese Hostages: How Their Lives Got Intertwined
One is a freelance journalist respected for his reporting on refugees and children in war zones. The other is man who seems obsessed with guns and went to Syria to train with fighters.
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Japan's 'Butter Refugees' Cry Over Spilt Milk
Japanese shoppers are up in arms over a serious butter shortage that has forced Tokyo to resort to emergency imports, as some grocers limit sales to one block per customer.
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For many Fukushima evacuees, the truth is they won't be going home
For many of Japan's oldest nuclear refugees, all they want is to be allowed back to the homes they were forced to abandon.
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Ex-refugee seeks lost love 70 years on
It was more than 70 years ago that Gary Matzdorff, a Jewish refugee, escaped Nazi Germany for China and found love, only to lose his paramour and then have to flee the Communists.
