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Japan News Review is an online newspaper/news aggregator founded in 2007 and run up until 2009 as a side project while I was a student in journalism. In its heyday, JNR was linked to by the Guardian’s Japan section, Harvard University’s Japanese faculty resource page, and indexed by Google News.

The news stories published on the site are either redirects to English-language external articles, or my own material, compiled from Japanese-language media reports.

Most read articles on Japan News Review today

NHK announcer Nachiko Shudo gets hitched

Aftershock hits Niigata

Man dies after being bitten on throat by own Tosa dog

Wakayama police traffic forecast: 'Today there will be accidents'

All people stranded in downpour-hit Kumamoto town rescued

Police failed to perform autopsy on beaten sumo wrestler

Institute admits lax handling of pathogens

Father of murdered Akita schoolboy seeks death penalty for accused killer

Ryoko Hirosue to star in Takita's "Okuribito"

Asahi: Akita murders

AUTUMN LEAVES

Autumn leaves in Matsudo city, Chiba Prefecture.

Photo: Juyo Tanaka. Used under a Creative Commons license.

Photo: Takayuki Saito. Creative Commons

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