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Politics & GovernmentKishida confident in moving boldly against the coronavirus
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida showed in his policy speech Monday his commitment to containing the spr...
December 7, 2021
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MuseumsFollowing Saitama’s ‘map of literature’
Visitors to the Saitama Museum of Literature are greeted in the exhibition room on the first floor w...
December 7, 2021
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Japan In FocusAkita: Creating cute sweets using city’s local fermented ingredients
YOKOTE, Akita — Momone Sasaki, 17, a second-year high school student at Yokote Seiryogakuin, was dec...
December 7, 2021
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Yomiuri EditorialKishida must present specific steps for realizing goals in policy speech
It is important to prevent the novel coronavirus variant from coming into Japan while also promoting...
December 7, 2021
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Politics & Government
Kishida: Japan will make own decision regarding Games
Following the White House announcement that the United States will not send government officials to ...
December 7, 2021
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Japan In FocusGunma: Student-designed satellite now in orbit to monitor radio waves from Jupiter
MAEBASHI — A microsatellite mainly developed by a team at the National Institute of Technology, Gunm...
December 7, 2021
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General NewsInnovation improves Japan’s raw food culture
Raw fish, raw eggs and raw chocolate. In the Japanese diet, the emphasis on raw can be felt everywhe...
December 7, 2021
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Associated PressU.S. plans diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics ...
December 7, 2021
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Film & TVDocumentary on disease depicts people’s desperate, driven fight for life
Renowned documentary film director Kazuo Hara has turned his lens to the issues revolving around Min...
December 7, 2021
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CompaniesNovice farmers get helping hand in agri-tech trial
NTT East Corp. and the Tokyo metropolitan government have launched a trial project using 5G technolo...
December 7, 2021
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Politics & Government
Japan to cut housing loan tax exemption rate to 0.7 %
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government and ruling camp plan to lower the tax exemption rate fo...
December 7, 2021
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Companies
Rakuten’s free deliveries suspected of violating law
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s Fair Trade Commission said Monday that Rakuten Group Inc. has committed...
December 7, 2021
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Associated PressOmicron v. delta: Battle of coronavirus mutants is critical
As the omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around th...
December 7, 2021
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Wider WorldFive years after Colombia’s deal with FARC rebels, stable peace remains elusive
BOGOTA — A deal to end a half century of armed conflict in Colombia between the government and the c...
December 7, 2021
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CoronavirusJapan prefectures increasingly share data to support COVID patients at home
Prefectural governments are increasingly ready to share with municipalities information about COVID-...
December 6, 2021