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Japan's Health Ministry Publishes Translated Covid-19 Vaccination Form

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The health ministry has released a draft COVID-19 vaccination form and letters of notice translated into 12 languages on its website for foreign residents who have difficulty understanding Japanese.
The ministry released basic information on the vaccination, including who can be ino...

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Mori Makes Another Offensive Remark Toward Women

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Former Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori, who resigned last month amid backlash over derogatory remarks toward women, may come under renewed criticism after saying Friday a female political staffer was "too old to call a woman."
Mori, 83, directed the comment toward a staff ...

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Suga, Biden To Affirm Senkakus Fall Under Japan-US Security Pact

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JAKARTA POST
 
Japan and the United States plan to affirm the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea fall under the scope of their security treaty in a joint statement to be issued by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and President Joe Biden at their summit next month, a government source said Friday....

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Japan's Mieko Kawakami Wants To 'Stir Things Up'

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BANGKOK POST
 
TOKYO - Mieko Kawakami has called out cliched depictions of women by one of her country's most feted writers, and seen her own bold style attacked by a top politician.
But the award-winning Japanese author says she is happy to "stir things up" in her drive to depict the world as sh...

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Japan Mulls Closing Another Door To Refugees

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FOREIGN POLICY
 
A new amendment would make Japan’s strict immigration policies even stricter.
Japan granted asylum to less than 1 percent of refugees and asylum-seekers who applied in 2019, despite having the third-largest economy in the world. Germany, which has a similar GDP, took around 53 pe...

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Messaging App Line To Transfer All Users' Data To Japan For Security

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JAKARTA POST
 
The president of messaging app provider Line said Tuesday all data of its users will now be transferred to Japan and stored in the country to better protect its customers' personal information.
The measure comes after Line, whose app is used by over 86 million of Japan's some 126 m...

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Japan Charges Americans With Helping Ghosn Flee, Jump Bail

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DELTA OPTIMIST
 
Japanese prosecutors charged two Americans, Michael Taylor and his son Peter, Monday in the escape of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn to Lebanon, while he was out on bail.
Tokyo District Prosecutors have been questioning the Taylors since they were extradited from the United ...

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'Everything Evaporated': Olympics' Overseas Fan Ban Hits Japan Tourism

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JAKARTA POST
 
Toshiko Ishii spent $180,000 renovating her traditional Japanese inn in expectation of a flood of tourists for the Tokyo Olympics, but now she won't be hosting a single overseas fan.
After Olympics organisers announced a ban on spectators from abroad, those working in Japan's touri...

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Japanese Ancient Wall Paintings Shown To Media

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Colorful wall paintings found inside an ancient tumulus in Nara Prefecture were shown to the media before Japan marked the 50th anniversary of their discovery Monday.
The murals including those of “Asuka Bijin” beautiful women were found inside the Takamatsuzuka Tomb in the Nara ...

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New Hospital Bed Allocation Plan Required By May

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
One of the reasons the government decided to end the coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures on Sunday was because of lower hospital bed occupancy rates. According to the health ministry, the rate in Tokyo peaked at 83.6% on Jan. 13, but it had ...

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