BLOOMBERG
 
To the growing list of things that make gaming startup Coly Inc. unusual, it can add one of the best market debuts in recent Japanese history.
Co-founders Anna and Mizuki Nakajima -- they’re twins -- took their seven-year-old mobile games studio public Friday, and the stock doubled, t...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Cherry blossoms have arrived early this year, at least digitally, in a special event that began at the Konica Minolta Planetarium Tenku in Tokyo Skytree Town on Monday.
Photographs and computer-generated imagery of “someiyoshino” cherry blossoms have filled the planetarium’s dome...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said Monday it had successfully removed spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building in a key step in its clean up of the site after a nuclear disaster a decade ago.
TEP...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Lawmakers from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party have urged local members to shun a move that supports a legal revision allowing separate surnames for married couples, party sources said.
In what could be construed as applying pressure, a group of LDP lawmakers sent a ...

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GSM ARENA
 
Oppo's quest to launch as many affordable 5G phones as possible is still ongoing, and the latest device that has that honor is the A54 5G. This model has been listed by Japanese carrier au, and we have to say it looks a lot like the already announced Oppo A93 5G.
The key difference we...

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CNN
 
Japan's military performed 25 missions in 2020 in defense of US ships or planes, a sign of the growing integration of two of Asia's most powerful armed forces.
The number of what Japan calls "asset protection" missions was up from 14 in 2019 amid a "severe security environment," according t...

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NY POST
 
Japan just appointed a Minister of Loneliness — to try to combat its exploding suicide rate amid COVID-19.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga named Tetsushi Sakamoto, a cabinet member already trying to beef up the depressed country’s birthrate, to the post.
Suga noted earlier this m...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has commuted to his office from a nearby apartment complex rather than moving into the leader's official residence since assuming his post, drawing criticism that he could be slow to respond in event of a crisis.
Days after a major eart...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Inoculations of older people against the coronavirus will start in April as planned but at a slower pace, the minister in charge of the vaccine rollout said Sunday as the country received its second shipment of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine.
Citing what he said was a delay until May of a pr...

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NHK
 
The Japanese government has found that at least 5,800 college students either left school or took time off because of the spread of the coronavirus between April and December of last year.
The ministry of education conducted a survey of four-year universities and colleges, junior colleges a...

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