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Japan 5-day Weather Forecast

Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Hiroshima Turning cloudy

Turning cloudy 14℃/6℃

 Partly sunny

Partly sunny 17℃/7℃

 Mostly sunny

Mostly sunny 18℃/6℃

 Sunny

Sunny 17℃/7℃

 After a cloudy start, sunshine returns

After a cloudy start, sunshine returns 18℃/9℃
Miyoshi Mostly cloudy

Mostly cloudy 11℃/3℃

 Sun and clouds

Sun and clouds 15℃/5℃

 Sunny to partly cloudy

Sunny to partly cloudy 15℃/5℃

 Mostly sunny and pleasant

Mostly sunny and pleasant 17℃/4℃

 After a cloudy start, sunshine returns

After a cloudy start, sunshine returns 18℃/7℃

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A job fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. The unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders in the U.S. rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier.
Top Chinese diplomat weighs in on Takaichi’s ‘shocking’ Taiwan remarks
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing on Oct. 27.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
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