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Japan To Restart Scaled-Down Domestic Travel Discount Program

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The Japan Tourism Agency will restart its domestic travel discount program on a smaller scale starting Tuesday after a suspension during the year-end and New Year holidays.
The move is part of efforts to support the domestic tourism industry, which has been battered by the COVID-19 ...

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Japan, US To Hold Security Talks Before Kishida Meets Biden

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STRIPES
 
Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington the day before Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida lands in the U.S. capital next week, wrapping up his tour of the Group of Seven nations as Tokyo expands its military and d...

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Japan Kishida Vows To Debate Govt, BOJ Roles With New Central Bank Head

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REUTERS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday his government and the central bank must discuss their relationship in guiding economic policy after he names a new Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor in April.
The remark heightens the chance the government may revise its a decade-long blu...

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Japan Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Apparent Bomb Threat

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CNN
 
An airplane flown by budget carrier Jetstar made an emergency landing in central Japan on Saturday after authorities received an apparent bomb threat from an international caller, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing police sources.
Tokyo’s Narita airport received the call at 6:20 a.m. J...

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Japanese Official Signals That Tokyo Will Join US In Chip Ban Against China

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SCMP
 
·Japan must ‘address the misuse of critical and emerging technologies by malicious actors’, trade minister Yasutoshi Nishimura says in Washington·‘We hope to build up the development of dual-use technologies and supply chain cooperation’ with the United States, says the minister 
Japan wil...

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Japan PM Kishida Invited To Visit Ukraine, Spokesperson Says

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REUTERS
 
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been invited to visit Ukraine, the government's top spokesperson said on Friday.
The invitation was given by the head of Ukraine's Presidential Office Andriy Yermak to Japan's ambassador to Ukraine on Wednesday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokaz...

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Tokyo Is So Crowded The Government Is Paying Families To Leave

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CNN
 
Japan is offering to pay families to move out of its overcrowded capital, in an effort to revitalize countryside towns and boost the falling birth rate.
Starting in April, families in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including those headed by single parents, will be eligible to receive 1 millio...

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Japan To Tighten COVID-19 Border Controls For Travellers From China

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CNA
 
Japan will toughen from Sunday (Jan 8) its COVID-19 border control measures for travellers from China, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, in response to a surge of infections among such visitors.
Additional measures will require negative coronavirus tests before passengers board direct flig...

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Komazawa Hits Stride To Seal Triple Crown

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Komazawa University runners were in perfect stride at the Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden.
The team stayed steady in the return trip from Hakone to Tokyo on Tuesday, keeping its first-day lead and holding off the field with relative ease to win the 99th edition of the race.
Komaz...

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Million Yen Per Child To Leave Tokyo – Japan’s Offer To Families

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Government boosts incentives to lure people to ‘unfashionable’ regional areas hit by ageing, shrinking populations
Japan’s government is offering ¥1m ($7,500) per child to families who move out of greater Tokyo, in an attempt to reverse population decline in the regions.
The incent...

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