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Japan To Host First Joint ‘War Games’ With US, France

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AL JAZEERA
 
Military exercise, running from May 11 to 17, will be the first large-scale drill in Japan involving ground troops from all three countries
Japan will hold a joint military drill with US and French troops in the country’s southwest next month, the defence minister has announced, as C...

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Japan To Declare COVID Emergency For 4 Prefectures

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NHK
 
Japan's government is reportedly in the final stage of discussions on declaring a state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka and two other populous prefectures amid rising COVID-19 infections.
Senior officials of the main governing Liberal Democratic Party told reporters on Thursday that they were ...

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Japan Should Consider Scrapping Olympics, Former Finance Chief Says

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan needs to consider scrapping the Tokyo Olympics and speeding up its vaccine rollout amid growing virus infections, according to former Finance Minister Jun Azumi.
"We’re at a point in time when we should seriously consider a cancellation or postponement,” said Azumi, parliament...

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Japan Asks Myanmar Junta To Release Arrested Journalist

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AP NEWS
 
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government said Monday it is asking Myanmar to release a Japanese journalist who was arrested by security forces in its largest city of Yangon the previous day.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told reporters that his government is asking Myanmar authorities t...

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Biden Seeks Closer Ties With Japan As The U.S. Prepares To Challenge China

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CNBC
 
Key PointsU.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday,China’s rise on the global stage will feature highly on the two leaders’ meeting agenda, political analysts say.One possible outcome of the summit is a U.S.-Japan infrastructure plan focusing...

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Japan To Start Releasing Treated Fukushima Water Into Sea In 2 Years

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CNN
 
Japan will start releasing more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean in two years, the government said Tuesday -- a plan that faces opposition at home and has raised "grave concern" in neighboring countries.
The de...

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Olympic Torchbearers Run Through Empty Osaka Park As Virus Surge Tops 1,000

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Torchbearers for this summer's Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday ran through an empty park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, after the flame relay in the western prefecture was rerouted from public roads due to a sharp rebound in coronavirus infections.
Daily coronavirus cases in the prefecture w...

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Hideki Matsuyama Masters Japan’s Golfing Nerves To Lift Pre-Olympic Spirits

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THE GUARDIAN
 
TV commentators ‘could hardly speak’ as 29-year-old becomes first Japanese man to win a major
Hideki Matsuyama has recorded one of Japan’s greatest international sporting successes after winning the US Masters golf , months before Tokyo is scheduled to host the summer Olympics.
His...

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Arsonist At Idol Concert Says He Was Imitating The Kyoto Animation Arson Attack

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SORA NEWS
 
Japanese laws may need to be strengthened to stop more copycat attacks from occurring.
On 24 March, a man was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a building in the city of Tokushima, where a Japanese idol group concert was taking place. Today, investigators revealed that the man ...

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Japan Swimmer Ikee Wins Olympic Relay Spot After Surviving Leukemia

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CNA
 
Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee said she "didn't know what had just happened" after qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics medley relay on Sunday (Apr 4), just two years after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
Ikee, who only resumed training in March last year after being hospitalised for around 10 m...

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