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Voting Under Way In 2nd Referendum On Osaka Metropolis Plan
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JAPAN TODAY
Voting was under way on Sunday in a second referendum on whether Osaka should become a metropolis akin to Tokyo in 2025.
Backed by Osaka Gov Hirofumi Yoshimura and Mayor Ichiro Matsui, the initiative calls for the restructuring of Osaka city's 24 administrative districts into four s...
Voting was under way on Sunday in a second referendum on whether Osaka should become a metropolis akin to Tokyo in 2025.
Backed by Osaka Gov Hirofumi Yoshimura and Mayor Ichiro Matsui, the initiative calls for the restructuring of Osaka city's 24 administrative districts into four s...
- November 1, 2020
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Hungry Bears With A Taste For Grapes And Chestnuts Are Causing Havoc In Japan
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WASHINGTON POST
Hungry bears with a taste for grapes and chestnuts are causing havoc across Japan, and thousands of the animals are ending up dead as a result.
Two people have been killed and almost 100 have been injured this year as human-bear encounters soar, according to Environment Ministry...
Hungry bears with a taste for grapes and chestnuts are causing havoc across Japan, and thousands of the animals are ending up dead as a result.
Two people have been killed and almost 100 have been injured this year as human-bear encounters soar, according to Environment Ministry...
- October 30, 2020
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Japan Crosses 100,000 Cases, 9 Months After 1st
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AP NEWS
Japan’s coronavirus cases have topped 100,000, nine months after the first case was found in mid-January, the health ministry said Friday.
The country confirmed 808 new cases on Thursday, bringing the cumulative COVID-19 cases to 100,334, including 712 people who were on a cruise ship t...
Japan’s coronavirus cases have topped 100,000, nine months after the first case was found in mid-January, the health ministry said Friday.
The country confirmed 808 new cases on Thursday, bringing the cumulative COVID-19 cases to 100,334, including 712 people who were on a cruise ship t...
- October 30, 2020
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Japan To Lift Entry Ban On China, S. Korea, 6 Other Countries, Taiwan
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KYODO NEWS
Japan will lift its entry ban on foreign travelers from China, South Korea, six other countries and Taiwan from Nov. 1, government officials said Friday, as it gradually eases COVID-19 travel restrictions in a bid to revive its battered economy.
Australia, Brunei, New Zealand, Singap...
Japan will lift its entry ban on foreign travelers from China, South Korea, six other countries and Taiwan from Nov. 1, government officials said Friday, as it gradually eases COVID-19 travel restrictions in a bid to revive its battered economy.
Australia, Brunei, New Zealand, Singap...
- October 30, 2020
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Japan’s Weapon-Export Industry Takes Its First Steps
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EAST ASIA FORUM
In its first breakthrough since easing restrictions on arms exports in 2014, Japan signed a deal to sell US$100 million worth of advanced air surveillance radars to the Philippines. These radars — fixed and mobile — are built by Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), o...
In its first breakthrough since easing restrictions on arms exports in 2014, Japan signed a deal to sell US$100 million worth of advanced air surveillance radars to the Philippines. These radars — fixed and mobile — are built by Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), o...
- October 29, 2020
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Japan To Launch Entrepreneur Visa For Int’l Grads
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THE PIE NEWS
The government in Japan is planning to launch a new visa for international graduates for budding entrepreneurs interested in setting up shop in the country.
Immigration Services Agency is currently preparing for a new start-up visa which allows graduate students from Japanese unive...
The government in Japan is planning to launch a new visa for international graduates for budding entrepreneurs interested in setting up shop in the country.
Immigration Services Agency is currently preparing for a new start-up visa which allows graduate students from Japanese unive...
- October 28, 2020
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Coronavirus Pandemic Deepens Japan's Demographic Crisis
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REUTERS
Tumbling numbers of pregnancies and marriages in Japan during the coronavirus pandemic are likely to intensify a demographic crisis in the rapidly ageing nation.
Japan has the most aged society in the world, with more than 35% of its population expected to be 65 and over by 2050, a tren...
Tumbling numbers of pregnancies and marriages in Japan during the coronavirus pandemic are likely to intensify a demographic crisis in the rapidly ageing nation.
Japan has the most aged society in the world, with more than 35% of its population expected to be 65 and over by 2050, a tren...
- October 28, 2020
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US, Japan Militaries Launch Keen Sword 21 Exercise
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NAVY TIMES
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command forces teamed up with units from the Japan Self-Defense Force and launched exercise Keen Sword 21 Monday — bringing together approximately 9,000 service members from the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps.
The exercise, conducted in Japan, Okinawa p...
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command forces teamed up with units from the Japan Self-Defense Force and launched exercise Keen Sword 21 Monday — bringing together approximately 9,000 service members from the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps.
The exercise, conducted in Japan, Okinawa p...
- October 27, 2020
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Japan And China Both Claim These Islands As Their Own. Now The US Is Showing Tokyo How It Can Help Defend Them
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CNN
Tens of thousands of US and Japanese troops will begin a massive island-landing exercise in the Pacific this week as part of joint military operations seen as a warning to China that Washington backs Tokyo over Beijing's claim to Japanese-controlled islands.
Speaking aboard a Japanese warsh...
Tens of thousands of US and Japanese troops will begin a massive island-landing exercise in the Pacific this week as part of joint military operations seen as a warning to China that Washington backs Tokyo over Beijing's claim to Japanese-controlled islands.
Speaking aboard a Japanese warsh...
- October 27, 2020
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Japan Rejects Nuclear Ban Treaty; Survivors To Keep Pushing
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AP NEWS
Japan said Monday it will not sign a U.N. treaty that bans nuclear weapons and does not welcome its entry into force next year, rejecting the wishes of atomic bomb survivors in Japan who are urging the government to join and work for a nuclear-free world.
The United Nations confirmed Sa...
Japan said Monday it will not sign a U.N. treaty that bans nuclear weapons and does not welcome its entry into force next year, rejecting the wishes of atomic bomb survivors in Japan who are urging the government to join and work for a nuclear-free world.
The United Nations confirmed Sa...
- October 26, 2020
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