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Japan Eases Travel Alert For Indonesia, Philippines, Other Areas

  • Category:Tourism
KYODO NEWS
 
The Japanese government on Wednesday eased its travel warning over the coronavirus pandemic for 54 countries and a region, including Indonesia and the Philippines, and is no longer requesting that residents in Japan refrain from nonessential trips to those nations.
The Foreign Minist...

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Japan To Drop Pre-Arrival Testing For Vaccinated Travelers Next Month

  • Category:Tourism
JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that Japan will stop mandating pre-arrival coronavirus tests for vaccinated travelers from Sept. 7 — a step that brings Japan’s border control policy closer to that of other major economies.
Japan will also raise the daily arrival caps fro...

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Japan Set To Allow More Tourists To Enter, Ease Covid-19 Test Rule

  • Category:Tourism
THE STRAITS TIMES
 
Japan is set to more than double the number of people it will allow into the country and may scrap the need for a negative Covid-19 test to enter, as the last rich economy with stringent entry requirements still in place looks to join the rest of the world in easing pandemic c...

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Japan PM Tells Ministers To Continue Sanctions Vs Russia, Support Ukraine

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REUTERS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his cabinet ministers to continue diplomatic responses, including sanctions, against Russia, while backing Ukraine, by keeping close coordination with the Group of Seven nations, the finance minister said on Tuesday.
"We will continue to ...

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Phishing Cases Hit New Record In Japan

  • Category:Event
NHK
 
The number of reported phishing cases in Japan topped 100,000 for the first time in July. The scammers use emails and other means to direct Internet users to fake websites to steal their personal information.
The Council of Anti-Phishing Japan says there were 107,948 such reports last month...

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2 Dead, 7 Injured After Bus-Car Collision On Expressway In Central Japan

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Two people died and seven others were injured after a bus overturned and caught fire on an expressway in Nagoya in central Japan on Monday, local authorities said.
It is believed the bus hit a concrete divider at around 10:15 a.m. near the Toyoyama-Minami interchange on the Nagoya E...

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Transgender Woman Not Legal Parent Of Child Born From Own Frozen Sperm, Japan Court Rules

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FOX NEWS
 
Japan requires transgender people to have a transition surgery and sterilization before legally switching genders 
A male-to-female transgender person cannot be a legal parent to a child conceived with sperm frozen prior to their transition, a Japanese court ruled Friday.
The ruling pe...

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Tokyo Knife Attacker Says She Wanted To See If People Really Die

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NHK
 
A teenager who stabbed two people in Tokyo has reportedly told investigators she wanted to see if people die from stab wounds before killing her own family.
She has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The attack by the 15-year-old girl on Saturday left a woman and her 19-year-ol...

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Japan Considers Deploying Long-Range Missiles To Counter China, Yomiuri Reports

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REUTERS
 
Japan is considering the deployment of 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to boost its counterattack capability against China, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday.
The missiles would be existing arms modified to extend their range from 100 km (62 miles) to 1,000 km, the daily said, c...

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The Sento Owners Making Group Bathing In Japan Cool Again

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Covid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese tradition
It is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and neighbours before stretching out in the recuperative waters of a public bathhouse.
But alm...

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