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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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Mutated COVID-19 Strain Confirmed In Japan As Nationwide Case Tally Hits Record High

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan on Friday confirmed its first cases of a mutated form of COVID-19 in five people who entered the nation from the U.K., health minister Norihisa Tamura said.
The same day, Japan confirmed a record 3,748 new coronavirus cases, the third consecutive day above 3,000.
The people wh...

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Japan’s Shinzo Abe Apologises Over ‘Cherry Blossom’ Scandal

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AL JAZEERA
 
Ex-PM says he was unaware that his office had subsidised cherry blossom viewing parties for his supporters.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has apologised for what he said were mistakes regarding unreported political funds involving as much as 30 million yen ($289,807) and ...

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Bluetooth Tombstones Help You Mourn Loved Ones Without Breaking The Bank

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan is constantly coming up with new ways to make our lives more convenient via the latest technology, sometimes even inventing solutions to problems we didn’t know we had.
And now, continuing that tradition, you can buy tombstones with bluetooth technology.
At the Yachiyo Yukyu n...

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Japan's Bitter Vaccine History Creates Hurdle In COVID-19 Fight

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JAPAN TIMES
 
  
With agreements to secure more coronavirus vaccines than it needs and legislation to distribute it for free, Japan may seem to have its inoculation plans in place. Yet a tense public history with vaccines and a cautious approval process has some concerned over how quickly the cou...

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Eat Eevee! Pokémon Tokyo Banana Team-Up Enters Round Two With Suggestions To Freeze, Singe Eevee

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SORA NEWS
 
Once again, the number-two Pokémon is right on Pikachu’s heels.
Eevee’s National Pokédex number is 133, but in terms of marketing, the much-loved species is really the number-two Pokémon. Sure, Pikachu usually takes point on collaborative Pokémon projects, but you can usually expect E...

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