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Japan Reaches Target Of 1 Mil COVID Booster Shots Per Day

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan reached the government's target of administering 1 million COVID-19 booster shots per day in mid-February as it accelerated the inoculation drive to stem infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the vaccine minister said Friday.
Noriko ...

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Japan To Allow More People In With Increased Daily Entry Cap

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TIME OUT
 
From March 14, the cap will be raised to 7,000 people per day and foreign students will be given priority
Japan has finally reopened its borders to the world, allowing non-tourists such as business travellers and students to finally enter the country.
However, as Japan has been closed ...

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Japan PM Raps Russian Nuke Threats As "Outrageous" Amid Ukraine Crisis

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday condemned Russia's nuclear threats as "outrageous" after President Vladimir Putin said he was putting his country's nuclear forces on high alert amid its invasion of Ukraine.
Kishida also said Japan will freeze the assets of Russian o...

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Former American Executive At Nissan Is Convicted By Japan Court

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NBC NEWS
 
 
Greg Kelly, charged with underreporting his boss Carlos Ghosn’s pay, received a six-month suspended sentence that will allow him to return to the U.S. immediately.
A court in Tokyo gave Greg Kelly, a former American executive at Nissan Motor charged with underreporting his boss Carlo...

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Japan To Freeze Assets Of 4 More Russian Banks

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The Japanese government will freeze assets held by four more Russian banks following the European Union's latest financial sanctions against Moscow imposed in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Thursday.
The move came a day after the EU s...

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Japan To Take Action On Energy Projects In Russia In Line With G7, Says Industry Minister

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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
 
Japan said on Tuesday (Mar 1) it would take "appropriate action" on energy projects in Russia involving Japanese state-owned companies, as major Western oil companies led a withdrawal from Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
Industry minister Koichi Hagiuda told a n...

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Japan Raises COVID-19 Entry Cap To 5,000 Per Day Amid Calls For More

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan eased COVID-19 border controls on Tuesday, setting its limit on new entrants at 5,000 per day, up from the previous 3,500, and reducing or exempting quarantine periods for both Japanese and foreign nationals.
Within the daily cap, which was relaxed for the first time in three m...

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Made-In-Japan Manga Goes Global With Webtoon, Deadpool

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AP NEWS
 
Perhaps nothing highlights how the world of manga, the comics and cartoons originating in Japan, has gone global better than that coming together of superheroes, American and Japanese.
In “Deadpool: Samurai,” Marvel’s Deadpool gets help in his battle against evil from All Might, the mus...

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Japan To Join U.S., EU In Cutting Russian Banks Off Int'l System

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan will join efforts by the United States and the European Union in blocking access by some Russian banks to the international payment system SWIFT, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Sunday, as Russia continued with its military attack on Ukraine.
On top of the sanctions already a...

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Japan, U.S. Foreign Ministers Condemn Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi held a 25-minute telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday morning, during which they condemned Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine as a serious violation of international law.
The two ministers reaffirmed ...

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