Tokyo begins its reopening on Tuesday, easing restrictions on some businesses

Tokyo begins its reopening on Tuesday, easing restrictions on some businesses

Tokyo is set to slowly reopen on Tuesday, with museums, libraries, pools and other facilities see restrictions eased.

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Price of high end Yubari melon fetches one 40th of last season's price

Price of high end Yubari melon fetches one 40th of last season's price

The price of high-end Yubari melons fetches one 40th of last season's price at the first auction of the season due to th...

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Foreign travelers to Japan in April nosedives by nearly 100 percent

Foreign travelers to Japan in April nosedives by nearly 100 percent

The number of foreign visitors to Japan tumbled by 99.9 percent in April compared to the same period last year due to th...

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COVID-19 Tokyo Olympic logo angers organizers

COVID-19 Tokyo Olympic logo angers organizers

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is demanding a logo combining the Tokyo summer games and COVID-19 virus be withdr...

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Govt concerned with public's lax attitude toward pandemic

Govt concerned with public's lax attitude toward pandemic

The Japanese government plans to decide on Thursday whether to lift the state of emergency declaration in 8 prefectures....

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Japan's 1st antigen test kit for novel coronavirus

Japan's 1st antigen test kit for novel coronavirus

The health ministry approves Japan's first antigen test kit for checking whether someone is infected with the novel coro...

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Emergency declaration, one week on

Emergency declaration, one week on

Japan's landscape and flow of people slowly beginning to shift as state of emergency is expanded to the entire country.

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Honda provides modified cars to transport coronavirus patients

Honda provides modified cars to transport coronavirus patients

Automaker Honda has started providing specially modified cars for transporting patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 t...

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PM Abe mulls cash handouts of 100,000 yen per person

PM Abe mulls cash handouts of 100,000 yen per person

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo is considering cash handouts of 100,000 yen per person in response to a demand by the ruling c...

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CORONAVIRUS: Japan could have 850,000 critically ill COVID 19 patients without measures: experts

CORONAVIRUS: Japan could have 850,000 critically ill COVID 19 patients without measures: experts

A government panel of experts on the novel coronavirus estimates that Japan could have as many as 850,000 COVID-19 patie...

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