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China Daily raps Japan PM Takaichi for recent Taiwan comments

Photo taken in Beijing on Nov. 24, 2025, shows the Nov. 24 edition of China's state-owned English-language newspaper China Daily satirically portraying Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi standing in front of a mirror and projecting herself as wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The paper branded Takaichi's recent remarks on Taiwan as "the militarist's path to revival."

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 10 Kyodo - Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori apologizes at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays. (Kyodo)

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori holds a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori holds a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) apologizes at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ozawa raps gov't plan to extend antiterror mission by 2nd vote

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa on Sept. 11 criticized the government's plan to seek an extension of Japan's antiterrorism operations in the Indian Ocean by holding a second vote in the House of Representatives to overrule the opposition-dominated House of Councillors decision should it vote down the bill.

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Chinese Gen Z rail worker raps about Jakarta-Bandung HSR

STORY: Chinese Gen Z rail worker raps about Jakarta-Bandung HSR DATELINE: Dec. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Jakarta-Bandun High-Speed Railway 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI YUZHAO, Conductor at China Railway Nanning Bureau Group Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: A Chinese Gen Z railway conductor sang a song about Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, a landmark project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI YUZHAO, Conductor at China Railway Nanning Bureau Group Co., Ltd. "A rap song about high-speed railway (HSR) is very popular in Indonesia recently (Song of Jakarta-Bandung HSR), thanks to a young man from Udayana University (Akbar). The friendly relations between China and Indonesia have been growing ever stronger. Let me sing about it to you in China today (China, China). A rap song about HSR is very popular in in Indonesia recently (Song of Jakarta-Bandung HSR), thanks to a young man from Udayana Universi

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Ex-PM Koizumi raps Abe's aim to revive nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a symposium in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2014. Known as a firm opponent to nuclear power following the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns, Koizumi criticized current Japanese leader Shinzo Abe's policy to revive the country's nuclear power generation.

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S. Korea raps Abe's sending of ritual offering to Yasukuni

SEOUL, South Korea - Noh Kwang Il, spokesman for South Korea's Foreign Ministry, announces a commentary in Seoul on Oct. 17, 2014, criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's sending of a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo for its autumn festival and some Japanese lawmakers paying their homage at the shrine.

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U.N. confab raps Assad regime's barrel bomb attacks in Syria

NEW YORK, United States - A conference is held at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on May 14, 2014, to accuse the Assad regime of using inhumane barrel bombs in Syria.

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Pro-Pyongyang group raps Tokyo court decision

TOKYO, Japan - Nam Sung U (L), vice chairman of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan known as Chongryon, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2014, condemning the Tokyo District Court's decision approving the sale of the pro-Pyongyang group's headquarters in the Japanese capital to a real estate agent.

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China raps NHK chief's remarks

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang holds a press briefing at the ministry in Beijing on Jan. 27, 2014. Qin rapped the new president of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, Katsuto Momii, over remarks he made over the weekend on "comfort women" suggesting that forcing women to provide sex to soldiers during wartime was something that "every country" does.

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Nuclear regulator raps TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Toyoshi Fuketa, commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks with reporters in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 23, 2013, after he and other NRA officials visited areas where 300 tons of highly radioactive water was recently found to have leaked from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Top U.S. diplomat in H.K. raps China for Snowden's escape

HONG KONG, China - U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong Stephen Young answers a reporter's question in Hong Kong on July 18, 2013. Young said that China ordered Hong Kong to let whistleblower Edward Snowden leave the territory despite a U.S. warrant.

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S. Korea's foreign minister raps Hashimoto's remarks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Seoul on May 27, 2013. Yun rapped Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's latest remarks on the so-called comfort women issue as "embarrassing and shameful" and said Japanese politicians' "retrogressive words and deeds" pose obstacles for high-level bilateral exchanges with Japan.

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S. Korea envoy raps Osaka mayor's remarks on WWII sex slavery

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo criticizes the Osaka mayor's remarks about sexual servitude being necessary for Japanese soldiers during World War II during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on May 15, 2013, saying he is disappointed by the lack of respect for women's rights among Japanese politicians.

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S. Korea envoy raps Osaka mayor's remarks on WWII sex slavery

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo criticizes the Osaka mayor's remarks about sexual servitude being necessary for Japanese soldiers during World War II during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on May 15, 2013, saying he is disappointed by the lack of respect for women's rights among Japanese politicians.

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Mariners' Ichiro against Padres

SAN DIEGO, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki raps a single during the seventh inning of a game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego, California, on June 23, 2012. Suzuki went 2-for-4 in a 5-1 win.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Twins

MINNEAPOLIS, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki raps an RBI double to right-center in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sept. 21, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-4 with an RBI in a 5-4 victory by the Mariners.

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Kan raps Medvedev's isle visit as 'unforgivable outrage'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks at an annual rally to press for the early return to Japan of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, in Tokyo on Feb. 7, 2011, designated as Northern Territories Day in Japan. Kan criticized Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit the previous November to one of the four islands claimed by Japan as an ''unforgivable outrage.''

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China raps Japan foreign minister

BEIJING, China - Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue speaks at a press conference in Beijing on Oct. 21, 2010. Hu criticized Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara for using ''extreme words'' to ''attack'' China at a time when the two countries are trying to mend ties soured by a territorial dispute.

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Maehara raps Ozawa over land purchase with political funds

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2010. Maehara criticized Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa for a land purchase by his fund management body in 2004, allegedly made using unreported money.

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U.S. envoy raps N. Korea's human rights as 'appalling'

SEOUL, South Korea - Robert King (R), U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights, and South Korean foreign minister Yu Myung Hwan ahead of their meeting in Seoul on Jan. 11, 2010. King arrived the previous day in South Korea on a five-day visit for his first fact-finding mission on the latest human rights conditions in North Korea.

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U.S. envoy raps N. Korea's human rights as 'appalling'

SEOUL, South Korea - Robert King (R), U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights, and South Korean foreign minister Yu Myung Hwan ahead of their meeting in Seoul on Jan. 11, 2010. King arrived the previous day in South Korea on a five-day visit for his first fact-finding mission on the latest human rights conditions in North Korea.

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Nobel winner Noyori raps drive to cut science budget

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), speaks about a government working group's recommendation to cut the science and technology budget at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. Noyori said the recommendation lacks insight and will leave Japan trailing behind in scientific fields.

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Expert raps bridge plan that threatens landmark scenery in Inland Sea

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Gustavo Araoz, president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, speaks to reporters during his visit to Tomonoura in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture on Nov. 4, 2009.

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Takenaka raps nomination of ex-bureaucrat to head Japan Post

TOKYO, Japan - Former economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka, the main architect of postal privatization under former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2009. Takenaka criticized the government's naming of a former bureaucrat to head Japan Post Holdings Co.

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Aso raps DPJ as inconsistent, irresponsible over pledges

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso answers questions from reporters at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on July 27.

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China safety boss raps media coverage of tainted dumplings

BEIJING, China - Li Changjiang, head of China's food safety watchdog, speaks at a press conference in Beijing on March 13. Li accused some sections of the news media of fuelling public anxiety in Japan over a food poisoning outbreak involving Chinese-made ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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Japan lawmaker raps gov't over Russia's shooting of Japan boat

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, an outspoken lawmaker from Hokkaido, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 24. He criticized the Japanese government for what he sees as its inappropriate handling of an incident last week in which Russian authorities shot at and seized a Japanese fishing boat leaving one of the crew members dead in waters off Hokkaido.

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Tang raps shrine visit but says Beijing still eyes dialogue

BEIJING, China - Takako Doi (L), honorary president of Japan's Social Democratic Party, and Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 20 before their meeting.

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Koizumi raps China, S. Korea for refusing summits over Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to journalists at his official residence after visiting Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. He criticized China and South Korea for refusing to hold summit talks due to his visits to the war-linked shrine.

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Koizumi raps China, S. Korea for cutting off dialogue

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 4, his first working day of 2006.

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H. Matsui raps 400th homer as Yankees edge Devil Rays

NEW YORK, United States - New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui speaks to reporters at Yankee Stadium in New York on Sept. 7 after hit the 400th home run of his pro career in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

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Lee raps Koizumi's hint of visiting Yasukuni Shrine

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks to Japanese reporters on May 17 prior to his visit to Japan from May 23 to 28.

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(1)S. Korea raps Japan's education minister over island comments

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon speaks at his regular press briefing on March 30. Ban accused Japanese education minister Nariaki Nakayama of glorifying Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula in relation to an ongoing row over disputed island.

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S. Korea raps Japan for designating 'Takeshima Day'

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong Young criticized a Japanese prefectural assembly's designation of Feb. 22 as a day to press Japan's claim of sovereignty over an island both countries say is theirs.

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Minister raps Koizumi for tolerating Kim's 'disrespect'

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa heads to a Cabinet meeting at the Diet building on May 25. In informal discussions after the meeting, Nakagawa criticized Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for allowing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to treat him with disrespect when he visited Pyongyang on May 22.

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Toru Hasuike raps Foreign Ministry over inaction on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Toru Hasuike, whose brother Kaoru is one of five repatriated Japanese victims of abductions by North Korea, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. He has expressed dissatisfaction with the Japanese Foreign Ministry, saying it is not taking a firm stance against Pyongyang.

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Nobel laureate raps media over excessive coverage

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Nobel chemistry prize laureate Koichi Tanaka (R) speaks as Masatoshi Koshiba, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, listens at a news conference in Stockholm on Dec. 12. Tanaka rapped the Japanese media for being inconsiderate and said the media frenzy has caused great inconvenience to the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

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Ichiro notches first stolen base

PEORIA, United States - Ichiro Suzuki raps out a hit and notches his first stolen base of the preseason March 6, but the Seattle Mariners fell 5-3 to the Anaheim Angels. (MLB)

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Tanaka raps Koizumi for keeping bureaucrat Nogami in office

TOKYO, Japan - Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, after a House of Representatives session on March 6, criticizes Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for retaining Yoshiji Nogami within the Foreign Ministry. Koizumi dismissed Tanaka and former Vice Foreign Minister Nogami over their conflict over the ministry's decision to bar two Japanese aid groups from an Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Kim raps Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Kim Dae Jung addresses the nation in a speech to mark the 56th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule Aug. 15. Kim rapped Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit Monday to Yasukuni Shrine warning that ''dark clouds'' are being cast over bilateral relations.

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Primakov raps Japan's negotiating stance on islands

TOKYO, Japan - Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov delivers a speech in Tokyo on March 19. He criticized Japan for taking an ''extreme'' negotiating position by trying to win the return of all Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.

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Fujimori raps Peru's resolution

TOKYO, Japan - Deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (in file photo) has denounced the recent adoption by Peru's Congress of a resolution stripping him of the right to run for public office for 10 years on grounds he failed to execute his duties as president. In a letter to Kyodo News early this week, Fujimori described the move as ''a political sanction.''

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LDP's Koizumi raps expansionary fiscal policy

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Koizumi, a heavyweight in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a strong advocate of structural reform, gives a lecture at Kyodo News' head office in Tokyo on Sept. 26. Koizumi, who heads an intraparty faction to which Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori belongs, slammed the government's expansionary fiscal policy for worsening Japan's runaway debts.