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After Three-Month Virus Delay, Japan Opens Its Shortened Baseball Season
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ESPN
TOKYO -- Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not -- play ball.
After a three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the world's second-most famous baseball competition opened a season Friday that will be shortened from its regular 143 games to 120. That, of ...
TOKYO -- Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not -- play ball.
After a three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the world's second-most famous baseball competition opened a season Friday that will be shortened from its regular 143 games to 120. That, of ...
- June 20, 2020
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Japanese Start Traveling En Masse On 1st Advisory-Free Weekend
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - People started traveling en masse again in Japan on Saturday, a day after the government lifted its last-remaining advisories recommending against inter-prefecture travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The government, however, still faces a difficult task to keep the sprea...
TOKYO - People started traveling en masse again in Japan on Saturday, a day after the government lifted its last-remaining advisories recommending against inter-prefecture travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The government, however, still faces a difficult task to keep the sprea...
- June 20, 2020
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Japan Firms Testing AI Tech To Recruit Talent
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KYODO NEWS
Many Japanese companies have already shifted to online interviews and seminars for recruiting new employees due to the coronavirus pandemic, but some have gone a step further by testing artificial intelligence to efficiently hire talent.
But while companies see the benefits of AI suc...
Many Japanese companies have already shifted to online interviews and seminars for recruiting new employees due to the coronavirus pandemic, but some have gone a step further by testing artificial intelligence to efficiently hire talent.
But while companies see the benefits of AI suc...
- June 19, 2020
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Japan Rolls Out Microsoft-Developed COVID-19 Contact Tracing App
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THE VERGE
Japan’s government today released its coronavirus contact tracing app for iOS and Android. The apps rely on Apple and Google’s co-developed exposure notification platform, using Bluetooth to help determine whether users have come into close contact with others who have tested positive...
Japan’s government today released its coronavirus contact tracing app for iOS and Android. The apps rely on Apple and Google’s co-developed exposure notification platform, using Bluetooth to help determine whether users have come into close contact with others who have tested positive...
- June 19, 2020
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Mukai Taichi to Release Live Album, Live Video, and Tour Book
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ARAMA JAPAN
On January 1, Mukai Taichi laid out his schedule for the first half of 2020. It included a tour of China and Taiwan in the spring, a new digital EP in May, and release parties for the EP in Tokyo and Osaka in June. However, like all 2020 plans, Taichi’s didn’t happen due to COVID-19...
On January 1, Mukai Taichi laid out his schedule for the first half of 2020. It included a tour of China and Taiwan in the spring, a new digital EP in May, and release parties for the EP in Tokyo and Osaka in June. However, like all 2020 plans, Taichi’s didn’t happen due to COVID-19...
- June 18, 2020
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Over Half Japanese Autopsy Institutions Cannot Accept Coronavirus-Infected Bodies
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THE JAPAN NEWS
More than 50%, or 40 of the 73 institutions that conduct forensic autopsies, said they “cannot accept” corpses infected with the coronavirus, according to a May survey conducted by the Japanese Society of Legal Medicine and the Japanese Society of Forensic Pathology. Many institu...
More than 50%, or 40 of the 73 institutions that conduct forensic autopsies, said they “cannot accept” corpses infected with the coronavirus, according to a May survey conducted by the Japanese Society of Legal Medicine and the Japanese Society of Forensic Pathology. Many institu...
- June 18, 2020
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Balloon-Like UFO Spotted In Skies Above Northeastern Japan
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KYODO NEWS
An unidentified white balloon-like object was observed by residents in northeastern Japan on Wednesday morning, with many directing enquiries to the national meteorological agency's local branch and taking to Twitter to voice their excitement.
An official from the Japan Meteorologica...
An unidentified white balloon-like object was observed by residents in northeastern Japan on Wednesday morning, with many directing enquiries to the national meteorological agency's local branch and taking to Twitter to voice their excitement.
An official from the Japan Meteorologica...
- June 17, 2020
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Tokyo Has 0.1% Rate Of Coronavirus Antibodies
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NHK WORLD
Japan's health ministry says tests suggest that 0.1 percent of people in Tokyo have coronavirus antibodies.
The ministry has tested about 8,000 people in Tokyo, Osaka and Miyagi prefectures.
It says antibodies were confirmed in 0.1 percent of people tested in Tokyo; 0.17 percent in Os...
Japan's health ministry says tests suggest that 0.1 percent of people in Tokyo have coronavirus antibodies.
The ministry has tested about 8,000 people in Tokyo, Osaka and Miyagi prefectures.
It says antibodies were confirmed in 0.1 percent of people tested in Tokyo; 0.17 percent in Os...
- June 16, 2020
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Pandemic Pushes Japan's Geishas Online
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BANGKOK POST
HAKONE, Japan: Geisha "Chacha" sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not in front of her but kilometres away, watching online.
Beneath spotlights, the graceful 32-year-old geisha performs a traditional danc...
HAKONE, Japan: Geisha "Chacha" sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not in front of her but kilometres away, watching online.
Beneath spotlights, the graceful 32-year-old geisha performs a traditional danc...
- June 16, 2020
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Japanese Mascots Endangered By Effects Of Coronavirus
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - Yuru-kyara, the costumed mascots of Japan, have long entertained crowds big and small, whether its the opening of a car-wash or setting world records. The mascot industry has launched superstar careers and captured the imagination of the world.
But now, it is in danger. For ...
TOKYO - Yuru-kyara, the costumed mascots of Japan, have long entertained crowds big and small, whether its the opening of a car-wash or setting world records. The mascot industry has launched superstar careers and captured the imagination of the world.
But now, it is in danger. For ...
- June 15, 2020
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