JAPAN TODAY
 
NEC Corp has announced the strengthening of its face recognition technology, already recognized as the world's most accurate, with the development of a new face recognition engine that provides high-precision certification even when masks are worn.
The worldwide outbreak of COVID-19...

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SORA NEWS
 
Project would lead to easier exploration of lunar surface.
Present-day life has had mixed results on delivering on the predictions past generations made about the future. We still don’t have flying cars, for example, but we do have a real-life giant, moving anime robot (and if we had ...

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JAKARTA POST
 
Members of the public in Japan will get vaccinated against the new coronavirus for free, according to a health ministry policy approved Friday by its advisory panel, in a bid to curb serious and fatal cases of infection.
The Japanese government is trying to secure enough vaccines b...

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BBC
 
A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to murdering nine people after contacting them on Twitter, in a high-profile case that has shocked the country.
Dubbed the "Twitter killer", Takahiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after body parts were found in his flat.
He told a court in Tokyo on Wednesd...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is planning to visit Vietnam and Indonesia around mid-October in his first official overseas trip since taking office earlier this month, government sources said Wednesday.
If the trip goes ahead, the premier is expected to hold talks with Vietn...

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CNN
 
Japan's Defense Ministry is asking for a 8.3% budget increase in 2020, its largest rise in more than two decades, in the face of China's rapid military modernization and a looming threat from North Korea.
The Defense Ministry announced the draft budget on Wednesday afternoon, worth $51.9 bi...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The government is considering holding ceremonies to celebrate Crown Prince Akishino's ascent to first in line to the chrysanthemum throne possibly in mid-November, an official said Monday.
The Rikkoshi no Rei ceremonies, originally scheduled for April, have been postponed due to the...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan regrets the recent installation in Berlin of a statue of a girl symbolizing Korean women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, its top government spokesman said Tuesday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a press conference that the statue u...

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BBC
 
Award-winning Japanese actress Yuko Takeuchi has been found dead at her Tokyo home at the age of 40.
She was reportedly found by her actor husband Taiki Nakabayashi at their home in Shibuya Ward. Her death was confirmed at hospital.
Police launched an investigation, suspecting that the actr...

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THE DIPLOMAT
 
JIMEX 2020 comes at a time when the India-Japan defense relationship, guided by political convergence at the top, is exceptionally robust.
The three-day India-Japan bilateral maritime exercise, held this year in the North Arabian Sea, concludes today against a backdrop of deepening...

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