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On Brink Of Coronavirus Crisis, Japan PM Offers Masks, Gets Social Media Roasting

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REUTERS
 
TOKYO (Reuters) - Facing calls to declare a coronavirus state of emergency, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was flamed on social media on Thursday for instead offering people free cloth masks, pointing to growing frustration for some over his handling of the crisis.
Abe’s offer of ma...

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Japan To Ban Entry To Foreign Travelers From The U.S., China, Most Of Europe

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SORA NEWS
 
Roughly one third of the planet expected to be unable to travel to Japan as part of expanded coronavirus countermeasures.
Last week, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the unprecedented measure of asking citizens to refrain from any and all non-essential international travel, re...

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Olympics-‘We’ll Be Stronger Than Ever In 2021’ – Naomi Osaka

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, the poster girl of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, took to social media on Saturday to show her support for the decision to postpone the Games until next year
Osaka, who won the U.S. Open in 2018 and the Australian Open in 2019, was ...

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Japanese Warship, China Fishing Boat Collide In East China Sea

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AL JAZEERA
 
No casualties reported following the incident, which happened north of Japan-controlled islets that China also claims.
A Japanese destroyer collided with a Chinese fishing boat in the East China Sea on Monday night but no one was injured or missing, Japan's Defence Ministry said.
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Japan Carefully Monitoring Growth In Virus Cases

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NHK
 
Japan will carefully explore the possibility of declaring a state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, with the growth in new cases and the economic implications in mind.
On Monday, a member of a government advisory panel revealed that a majority of the members are in favor of making...

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Saitama Governor: Avoid Travel to Tokyo

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Saitama Gov. Motohiro Ono urged people to refrain from unnecessary travel to Tokyo from Monday, including entertainment districts, due to widespread infections with the new strain of coronavirus.
There was no order to refrain from commuting to and from work, but Ono asked that pe...

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Japan Not Planning To Declare State Of Emergency But Will Expand Entry Bans

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan has no plan to declare a state of emergency from April, its top government spokesman said on Monday, seeking to dispel mounting fears a recent spike in coronavirus cases could lead to a first-ever lockdown of the capital, Tokyo.
As the number of infections grows global...

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Japan And South Korea Tighten Borders As US Faces Up To 200,000 Covid-19 Deaths

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Governments ban entry to foreigners and announce quarantine measures as Donald Trump says keeping US deaths to 100,000 would be ‘very good’
Japan and South Korea are poised to tighten restrictions on overseas visitors in renewed efforts to prevent “imported” cases of the coronaviru...

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Less People Around Tokyo's Shibuya Station

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NHK WORLD
 
A request by Tokyo's governor that people stay home this weekend amid the coronavirus outbreak had shown some results on Saturday morning. Observers reported seeing fewer people than usual around the major rail hub of Shibuya.
A few people were sitting on the benches near the Hachiko ...

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Japan To Bar Entry For Foreign Travelers, Including Indonesians

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JAKARTA POST
 
Japan is set to bar entry to citizens of several countries, including Indonesia, wishing to travel to the country starting on Saturday, following a consistent increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the East Asian nation.
According to the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan recorded...

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