MAINICHI
 
Japan's weather agency is calling for residents to be vigilant against powerful winds, high tides and landslides as strong Typhoon Chan-hom approaches east of the country's archipelago.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reports that the 14th tropical storm of the year was situated ...

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE
 
Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has disrupted the process by which scientists are appointed to serve on the governing body of the country’s leading academic society. Researchers see the move against the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) as a threat to academic freedom....

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KYODO NEWS
 
Popular Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara is set to marry her non-celebrity boyfriend within the year, her agency said Thursday.
"I felt confident I could overcome any difficulties with him while sharing various experiences," the 33-year-old actress said in a statement.
The would-be g...

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AA.COM
 
 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue group agrees to work for 'free and open Indo-Pacific' amid tensions with ChinaThe top diplomats of Japan, the US, Australia and India met in Tokyo on Tuesday agreeing to work for peace in the Indo-Pacific region. 
According to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency, t...

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TIMEOUT
 
Here’s how Japan is planning to reopen its borders ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games
With so much uncertainty amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, the road to reopening borders for international travel feels like a long and murky path.
While Japan has recently eased entry restrictions...

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JAKARTA POST
 
Japanese fashion lovers, politicians and friends of Kenzo Takada paid tribute to the designer on Monday after he died in Paris aged 81 having contracted coronavirus.
Junko Koshino, who went to fashion school with Takada in Tokyo, told local media she could not believe news of his d...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Yuru-kyara competition ‘lost original purpose’ after aggressive campaigning by prefectures
A cuddly fairy on a mission to “deliver happiness” to her disaster-hit hometown has been crowned Japan’s most popular mascot, but unseemly rivalry among competitors has forced organisers to a...

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SORA NEWS
 
That puts the new total of Pokéfuta in Japan at 110!
Pokémon manhole covers have been slowly but steadily taking over Japan. Starting with just a few featuring Eevee in Kagoshima in 2018, then gradually progressing to taking over streets across the country with lots of different Pokém...

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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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