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Japan’s Revised Child Care Law Makes It Easier For Fathers To Take Four Weeks Of Paternity Leave

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SORA NEWS
 
The law also pressures workplaces to make child care leave policies transparent to soon-to-be parents.
Japan’s already declining birth rate took an even harder hit in 2020. It’s an expensive country in which to raise a child, and with the added financial complications caused by the co...

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Japanese Olympic Official Dies After Jumping In Front Of Train

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JAPAN TIMES
 
A senior official at the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) jumped in front of an underground train in an apparent suicide on Monday morning, private broadcaster Nippon Television said, citing Tokyo metropolitan police sources.
The police are investigating the details surrounding the ...

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Naoki Kobayashi of EXILE & Sandaime J Soul Brothers Tests Positive for COVID-19

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
Naoki Kobayashi of EXILE and Sandaime J Soul Brothers has tested positive for the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
In a statement released by LDH JAPAN, Naoki was in poor physical condition on June 3. He underwent a PCR test and was found to be positive on June 4. He is currently under t...

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Japan Plans To Issue Vaccination Certificates To Students Wishing To Study Abroad

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Students planning to study abroad may soon receive vaccination certificates arranged by the education ministry.
Many universities abroad are now requiring students to have received COVID-19 vaccine shots.
The government plan calls for students who need proof of vaccination to sen...

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Japan Disposes Of More Than 7,000 Mishandled Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine: Report

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CNA
 
More than 7,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been disposed of in Japan due to mishandling, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday (Jun 6), as Japan races to inoculate its people amid a fourth wave of coronavirus infections.
A hospital and a mass vaccination centre each had to dispose of aro...

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Japan’s Pre-Olympics Vaccine Push Looks To Be Too Late

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THE DIPLOMAT
 
Even optimistic estimates suggest at least 70 percent of Japan’s population will remain unvaccinated as of the Olympics’ opening day.
It may be too little, too late.
That’s the realization sinking in as Japan scrambles to catch up on a frustratingly slow vaccination drive less than...

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Japanese Government Plans Removal Of Around 2,485 Miles’ Worth Of Overhead Power Lines

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SORA NEWS
 
The move is intended to minimize damage during natural disasters, but is it too little too late?
No matter where you travel in Japan, you’re likely to see one familiar sight wherever you go—utility poles, threaded together by thick power cables. These cables carry electricity all over...

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Taiwan, Feuding With China, Gets Vaccines From Japan

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ABC NEWS
 
A flight carrying 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from Japan has touched down in Taiwan to help the island fight its largest outbreak since the pandemic began
A flight carrying 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from Japan touched down in Taiwan...

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Japan Births Hit New Record Low In Pandemic

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FRANCE 24
 
The number of babies born in Japan hit a new record low last year, official data showed, highlighting concern over the pandemic's impact on one of the world's lowest fertility rates.
In 2020, the greying country saw 840,832 births, according to data released Thursday by the health and...

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Olympics Chief Says Games Will Proceed After Covid Official Voices Concerns

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Organisers remain bullish despite senior medical adviser saying holding Games during coronavirus pandemic was ‘not normal’
The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Seiko Hashimoto, has said the Games will go ahead as planned, soon after the Japan’s most senior...

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