JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Sony said Friday it was pulling the much-hyped "Cyberpunk 2077" from PlayStation stores around the world citing "lack of customer satisfaction", after complaints of bugs, compatibility issues and even health risks.
"SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment) strives to ensure a hi...

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
December hasn’t been the best month for the girls of LDH. Despite rumors of E-girls‘ disbandment being postponed to 2021, it was confirmed by LDH that the group would officially be disbanding at the end of the year on December 31st. This had fans curious about the fate of the other ...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Support for Yoshihide Suga plunges as his travel policy is blamed in part for rise in infections
Yoshihide Suga’s honeymoon period as Japan’s prime minister had barely begun when coronavirus intervened. Now, two months into his leadership, he finds himself battling a resurgent outb...

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CTV NEWS
 
TOKYO -- Officials from Japan's space agency said Tuesday they have found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases inside a small capsule the country's Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back from a distant asteroid this month, a mission they praised as a milestone in planetary res...

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BBC
 
A man who murdered nine people after contacting them on Twitter has been sentenced to death, in a high-profile case that has shocked Japan.
Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the "Twitter killer", was arrested in 2017 after body parts were found in his flat.
The 30-year-old had admitted to murderin...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The kanji character for “mitsu,” used repeatedly in calls to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, has been picked as the kanji best describing this year’s social mood in Japan, a Kyoto-based academic organization said Monday.
In making the announcement at the 26th annual yea...

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NHK
 
NHK has learned that Japan's transport ministry and a railway operator have drawn up a proposal allowing people arriving from overseas to use the train to leave Narita Airport near Tokyo.
The government is currently asking arrivals from abroad to avoid using public transportation and instea...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
A record 555 people are in hospital with serious symptoms, with military nurses requested to help overstretched health services
Japan has reported a record daily number of coronavirus cases, prompting health experts to urge people not to travel in the run-up to the New Year holiday...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
 
 
The government on Tuesday approved an additional economic package worth ¥73.6 trillion, including ¥51.7 trillion for projects aimed at re-configuring the nation’s economy and bringing it back to pre-pandemic levels. It also contains measures aimed at accelerating the introduc...

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NIKKEI ASIA
 
Japan will build two naval vessels equipped with Aegis missile interceptors as an alternative to a scrapped plan to deploy a land-based system, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Wednesday.
Japan had been considering two other options for deploying the interceptors offshore to counte...

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