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Watch: A terminally-ill child in the US becomes police officer for a day
Scroll Staff
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Photos from ‘Schippeitaro’, a Japanese fairy tale about sinister dancing cats and a heroic dog
Yasuyo Ohtsuka
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Watch: A seal slaps a kayaker in the face with an octopus tentacle
Scroll Staff
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Asian Games, day 7 as it happened: Tajinderpal bags India’s first athletics gold with Asiad record
Jaideep Vaidya Vinayakk Mohanarangan
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Photos: The star-crossed lovers of China and Japan’s literary traditions
Yasuyo Ohtsuka
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Why Japan is reluctant to retry the world’s longest-serving death row inmate
Mai Sato, The Conversation
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World Cup, Group E as it happened: Five-time champs Brazil through to last 16, Switzerland too
Scroll Staff
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Women in Iran protest without headscarves against law that makes hijab compulsory in public
Scroll Staff
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Chinese publishing is booming with over 350 million people reading ebooks. But at what cost?
Jack Hu
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China: Citizens write to government condemning eviction of migrant workers in Beijing
Scroll Staff
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Japan: Politician removed from Assembly session for bringing her infant with her
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Stingray devours squid in Japanese aquarium as visitors watch on in horror
Scroll Staff
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A guide to jianzi, a Chinese game with a shuttlecock (but no racket)
Ching Yuet Tang
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Liu Xiaobo: A voice of conscience who fought oppression for decades has now fallen silent
Hermann Aubié, The Conversation
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In Japan, pillows can be a sex partner
Agnès Giard, The Conversation Laure Assaf, The Conversation
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Records of a lunar eclipse from more than 3,000 years ago
Emma Goodliffe
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A Chinese agency is so proud of how well they censor the Internet, they sing about it
Sisi Wei and Yue Qiu, ProPublica
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What China’s 2014 internet memes said about the country’s hopes and fears
Lily Kuo & Zheping Huang, qz.com