KYODO NEWS
 
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a draft second extra budget for fiscal 2020, totaling 31.91 trillion yen ($296 billion), to provide additional funding to front-line medical workers and support people reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.
The country's largest-ever...

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VOA NEWS
 
TOKYO - Japan will not join the United States, Britain and others in issuing a statement scolding China for imposing a new security law, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, citing officials from countries involved. 
The United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia and Canada condemned China o...

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SORA NEWS
 
As the summer rains and summer flowers return, so too does this special treat.
The city of Uji, in Kyoto Prefecture, is pretty much synonymous with tea, and with good reason. Uji produces some of the finest green tea in all of Japan, and the mere mention of “Uji matcha” is enough to p...

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SCMP
 
Female wrestler’s suspected suicide is thought to be linked to cyberbullyingKimura had been target of hateful messages online after episode in which she got angry with male cast member over washing of her wrestling costume
Japanese reality TV show Terrace House has suspended its production...

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JAKARTA POST
 
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Thursday it may be necessary to a stage a "simplified" Olympics next year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and that organisers were already discussing possible changes.
Koike's comments come after the Yomiuri newspaper reported that var...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's prefectural governors on Thursday came up with joint proposals for how to revive the country's economy while preventing a second wave of infections amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Measures proposed during the online meeting of the National Governors' Association included...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Surge marks first time since May 14 that more than 30 cases have been reported in a single day
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government re-sounded the alarm for the capital after 34 new coronavirus infections were confirmed in the city Tuesday, a day after it eased business closure request...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Roughly 90% of the people who received positive results with simple coronavirus antibody test kits tested negative when a more detailed test utilizing large equipment was administered, says a team led by the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technolog...

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BLOOMBERG
 
What was meant to be a landmark year for Japan-China relations has turned sour, as the U.S. standoff with Beijing leaves Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caught up in a fight between his country’s biggest trading partner and its sole military ally.
If all had gone according to plan, Presiden...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
YOKOHAMA - Masazumi Kato sighed deeply as he lowered himself into a tub at a public bathhouse in Yokohama, enjoying a return to a Japanese tradition largely off-limits during the city's coronavirus lockdown.
With the lifting of a nationwide state of emergency over the virus, Japan's...

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