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In A World Turned Upside Down, Japan Will Muddle Through

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JAPAN TIMES
 
While the future is always unknowable, in Japan a darker uncertainty than usual hangs over the year to come. Much of the anxiety emanates from the COVID-19 pandemic, a virus that poses profound challenges to a society that privileges person-to-person connections and uses those netwo...

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Japan Greets New Year With Crowds Despite Pleas From Leaders To Stay Home

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Much of Japan welcomed 2021 quietly at home, alarmed after Tokyo reported a record high 1,337 coronavirus infections among the 4,519 daily number nationwide.
Although many people opted not to return to their ancestral homes for the holidays, hoping to lessen health risks for extende...

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Japan Expects Heavy Snow For New Year

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NHK
 
Japan's Meteorological Agency is warning of heavy snowfall in many parts of the country during the New Year's holidays, with the authorities pointing out the possibility of disruptions to transportation networks and blackouts. People are advised to be on the lookout for snow falling from ro...

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Japan Expands Airport Quarantine Measures

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NHK
 
The Japanese government has further tightened airport quarantine measures for people returning to Japan from countries and regions where more contagious variants of the coronavirus have been confirmed.
At Narita Airport near Tokyo, officials carefully checked papers, including negative viru...

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Mcdonald’s Releases An Oreo And Spam Burger For A Very Limited Time

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SORA NEWS
 
Is tinned meat and chocolate cookies a hellish combination or a match made in heaven?
Whether you’re in Japan, where customers get to bite into adult cream pies, or in the U.K., where they’ll soon be releasing Katsu Chicken Curry McNuggets, McDonald’s has been fearlessly wading out in...

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To A Bright New Year

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
 Pink and white kamaboko fish cakes, a common New Year’s food believed to bring good luck, are prepared at the Fujikuma Shokuhin food company in Settsu, Osaka Prefecture.
Employees used a special knife to put conger pike and pollack fish paste on small wooden boards about 6 centi...

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Pokémon Plane Takes Off In Japan

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CNN
 
  It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... Jigglypuff?
Some Pokémon-themed airplanes are starting to appear in the skies in Japan.
Solaseed Airlines, a local carrier based on the Japanese island of Kyushu, debuted a Pokémon-painted plane on December 19. Its maiden flight was from Miyazaki City...

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Japan To Suspend New Entry Of All Nonresident Foreign Nationals From Abroad

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan will suspend new entry into the country of nonresident foreign nationals from around the world from Monday through late January as a precautionary step against the new, potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant, the government said Saturday.
The government will also r...

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Figure Skating:Yuzuru Hanyu Electric In Japan National Championship Victory

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KYODO NEWS
 
NAGANO, Japan - Two-time defending Olympic men's champion Yuzuru Hanyu delivered a dramatic and nearly flawless free skate on Saturday to win his first Japan national championship in five years.
 
Hanyu, who led after Friday's short program at Nagano's Big Hat arena by 4.93 points ov...

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Japan To Halt New Entry From Around World Amid New Virus Variant

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JAKARTA POST
 
Japan will suspend new entry into the country of non-resident foreign nationals from around the world from Monday through late January as a precautionary step against the new, potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant, the government said Saturday.
The government will also...

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