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Japan Reportedly Won’t Allow Overseas Visitors To Attend Tokyo Olympics

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THE POINTS GUY
 
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Robot Pets Help Ease Virus Isolation In Japan

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming during the pandemic.
Smart home assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa have found success worldwide, but t...

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Japan Billionaire Offers Space Seats to Moon

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VOA NEWS
 
It's the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue Moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedition to eight people from around the world. 
Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, was announced in 2018 as the first man to book a spot aboard the lunar...

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Twin Sisters Score Japan’s Hottest IPO By Making Games For Women

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BLOOMBERG
 
To the growing list of things that make gaming startup Coly Inc. unusual, it can add one of the best market debuts in recent Japanese history.
Co-founders Anna and Mizuki Nakajima -- they’re twins -- took their seven-year-old mobile games studio public Friday, and the stock doubled, t...

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Tokyo Olympics Losing Volunteers Even After President’s Resignation For Sexist Remarks

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SORA NEWS
 
Games are scheduled to start in less than five months.
The Olympics are a the world’s greatest competition of physical prowess, but sticking your foot into the mouth isn’t one of the Games’ events.
So earlier this month when former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee president Yoshiro...

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Sakura-Studded Sky

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Cherry blossoms have arrived early this year, at least digitally, in a special event that began at the Konica Minolta Planetarium Tenku in Tokyo Skytree Town on Monday.
Photographs and computer-generated imagery of “someiyoshino” cherry blossoms have filled the planetarium’s dome...

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TEPCO Completes Removal Of Spent Fuel Rods From Fukushima No. 3 Reactor

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said Monday it had successfully removed spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building in a key step in its clean up of the site after a nuclear disaster a decade ago.
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Japan Asks China To Stop Anal COVID-19 Tests On Japanese Citizens

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KYODO NEWS
 
The Japanese government has requested China not to subject Japanese citizens entering the country to anal COVID-19 tests after receiving complaints of "psychological distress" from some of them, the top government spokesman said Monday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the...

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Japan To Begin Allowing Foreign Athletes' Entry Next Month

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EGYPT TODAY
 
Athletes participating in this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo can begin entering Japan after it lifts its emergency declaration order next month, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.
Nikkei reported that the emergency declaration is set to be lifted March 7 with the travel ban on...

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Japan’s Vaccine Strategy

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THE DIPLOMAT
 
A Look At Japan’s Thinking On COVID-19 Vaccines
COVID-19 is a once-in-a-century pandemic that has infected more than 110 million people worldwide and caused more than 2.4 million deaths. Many countries have implemented strict lockdowns to try to contain the infection, but the viru...

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