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Japan To Regulate Digital Ads Under Law On Tech Giants

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JAKARTA POST
 
Japan plans to regulate online advertising as early as next April under the law requiring information technology giants to be more transparent following recommendations contained in a final government report on digital marketing released Tuesday.
The move could be the world's first...

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Japan Ruling Party Election Loss A Blow To Suga Government

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JAKARTA POST
 
 
Japan's ruling party suffered a triple blow at by-elections over the weekend, as voter frustration with scandals and government management of the coronavirus risked weakening the influence of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's government.
Suga's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)...

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Japan's Schools To Stay Open Under COVID-19 Emergency

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The government plans to keep schools open in prefectures placed under a COVID-19 state of emergency in an effort to avoid interrupting education, officials have said.
Education ministry guidelines say that region-wide school closures due to the pandemic should be avoided from the vi...

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Britons Left Stranded By Japan’s Slow Vaccine Rollout

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Japan has vaccinated less than 1% of the population, leaving many expatriates frustrated London is not helping them.Japan’s troubled vaccination rollout has left British residents feeling “trapped” in their adopted home, preventing them visiting parents and children they haven’t se...

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Japan Raises Emissions Reduction Target To 46% By 2030

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DELTA OPTIMIST
 
 
TOKYO — Japan's prime minister announced on Thursday an ambitious new target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, hours before he was to join a virtual climate summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Japan will strive by 2030 to cut its em...

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Tokyo Reports 711 Coronavirus Cases; Osaka Records 1,153

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - The Tokyo metropolitan government on Tuesday reported 711 new cases of the coronavirus, up 306 from Monday. Osaka continued to report the most number of cases in the nation, recording 1,153 new infections.
By age group, people in their 20s (175 cases) and their 30s (148) acc...

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Female Cast Of One Piece Takes Center Stage With One Piece Novel Heroines

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SORA NEWS
 
Short story collection follows four heroines on side adventures.
By nature of being published in Weekly Shonen Jump, One Piece falls into the shonen/boys’ manga category. Eiichio Oda’s pirate saga has a large female cast too, though, and the seafaring ladies are becoming the stars wit...

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Olympic President Bach To Visit Japan In May, Meet PM Suga

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WHBL
 
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will visit Japan in May, the Kyodo News agency said on Saturday, as the nation struggles to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases before the start of the Games.
Bach will attend a torch relay ceremony in the western city of Hiroshima on May...

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Japan’s Response To The Coup In Myanmar

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EAST ASIA FORUM
 
On 1 February 2021, military television channel Myawaddy told the people of Myanmar that a state of emergency had been declared. President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, both senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), had been arrested.
Former v...

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Japan’s PR Efforts After Wastewater Dumping ‘Cannot Repair Image Or Pacify Neighbors’

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GLOBAL TIMES
 
Amid a public outcry in Japan's neighboring countries against its decision to dump Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the ocean, the Japanese government vowed at a Friday meeting to take "all-out measures" to dispel "harmful rumors," but the publicity efforts may not succeed and Jap...

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