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Yomiuri EditorialComprehensive review needed to secure national public servants
Students continue to avoid making national public service as their career choice. To secure the huma...
May 10, 2021
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General NewsPoll: 59% say Olympics, Paralympics should be canceled
About 60% of respondents said the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics should be canceled in the latest po...
May 10, 2021
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General NewsNPA urges businesses to verify IDs of SIM card buyers to prevent SMS authentication fraud
The National Police Agency in January asked the Telecom Services Association, a Tokyo-based industry...
May 10, 2021
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General NewsDomestic legislation blocks Japan on Genocide Convention
In January, the U.S. government called the Chinese government’s repression of the Uighur minority in...
May 10, 2021
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General News
Decarbonization of ports on the agenda to reduce CO2 emissions in Japan
The government will begin formulating plans for the decarbonization of 125 major ports across the co...
May 10, 2021
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CoronavirusTokyo businesses confused by varying restrictions
A sharp divide has emerged among cultural and sports facilities in Tokyo as restrictions on venue ca...
May 9, 2021
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Yomiuri Editorial
Mobile phone shops’ sales methods must prioritize customer needs
Many people possess smartphones as a necessity for daily life. Major mobile phone companies need to ...
May 9, 2021
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Yomiuri Editorial
Turning ruins into cultural properties possible with enthusiastic local actions
It has been shown that even a decayed building can be preserved and utilized if it has historical va...
May 9, 2021
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CoronavirusOver 6,000 involved in workmen’s accidents related to coronavirus in Japan last year
A total of 6,041 people died or lost four or more days of work last year as a result of work-related...
May 9, 2021
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Vantage PointThe young Swede rewriting the book on green tea
t’s about time for the first harvest of Japanese green tea across the nation. For one young Swede, s...
May 9, 2021
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CoronavirusTrain commuting down in Tokyo, Osaka metropolitan areas
The pandemic has been affecting how people in Japan’s congested metropolitan areas commute to work, ...
May 9, 2021
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CoronavirusMeasures curbed flow of people, but cases remain high
The government has decided to extend the third coronavirus state of emergency to be declared since ...
May 8, 2021
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General NewsHistoric capsule tower faces the chopping block under new ownership
Time is running out for an iconic Tokyo building that, for the romantic, stands as a futuristic sym...
May 8, 2021
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Yomiuri Editorial
Make progress in vaccination drive after state of emergency extension
Has the third state of emergency, which was positioned as a “short-term focused” solution, led to th...
May 8, 2021
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EconomyForecast: Negative GDP growth seen for 2 straight quarters as emergency extended in Japan
Economists are projecting that Japan’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for April-June could...
May 8, 2021