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Wild boar killed in Matsuyama residential district
MATSUYAMA — A wild boar was killed after wandering into a residential area of Matsuyama City in Ehime Prefecture, on Tuesday afternoon. The animal was first spotted about 7:20 a.m. more »
Fluffy robot comforts Japanese elderly
It might just look like a large fluffy toy. But Babyloid, Japan’s latest therapeutic robot baby, is also designed to help ease depression among older people by keeping them more »
Deaf mother files suit for city rejecting interpreting dispatch as “illegal”
December 5, 2011 The Deaf female office worker (40) of Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture applied for sign-language interpreting dispatch to the city in June in order to attend the briefing more »
Patient suffocated due to error at Ehime hospital
MATSUYAMA (Kyodo) — A patient in his 70s died of suffocation at Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital on Saturday after a nurse mistakenly stuck an airtight sheet over an artificial breathing more »
