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Iwate Prefecture reported its first COVID-19 death on Nov. 23, while Osaka Prefecture confirmed 282 new infections and wants Osaka city pulled from the government’s “Go To Travel” tourism-promotion ... ( read original story ...)

Bach vowed that the Tokyo Olympics in the shadow of the coronavirus would “be a light at the end of the dark tunnel.” But anti-Olympics activists in Japan’s capital were not ... ( read original story ...)

Hotel documents show former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's camp paid part of the expenses for a dinner party held for his supporters the night before an annual cherry blossom viewing party, NHK ... ( read original story ...)

A panel of human rights experts working with the United Nations says former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was wrongly detained in Japan and has urged “compensation” and “other reparations” for him ... ( read original story ...)

Sapporo is preparing to stop taking new bookings under the state-run “Go To Travel” subsidy program given the high number of COVID-19 cases in the city, local government sources said Monday. The ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido and its capital are arranging to accept a halt of new bookings for Sapporo under the state-run "Go To Travel" subsidy program given a high number of ... ( read original story ...)

China reported sporadic local cases in Tianjin, Shanghai and Inner Mongolia, raising concerns that the virus is popping up again in the world’s second-largest economy. Jakarta extended curbs after ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo recorded 314 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the metropolitan government said, down for a second day after hitting a record 539 on Saturday. ( read original story ...)

Everyone wanted to learn the lessons of Japan. They still do. Thirty years on, Japan’s economy has not lost its fascination. But rather than the secrets to miraculous economic growth, today’s students ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido and its capital are arranging to accept a halt of new bookings for Sapporo under the s ... ( read original story ...)

Planning a business or leisure trip to Japan and looking for an economy-priced hotel in Nagoya? The good news is that ibis Styles, which is a design brand within the Accor group, has now unveiled its ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Yokohama city announced on Friday that it would hold on November 30 the first meeting of the “Yokohama IR operator selection committee”. According to information collated by GGRAsia’s Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Oyunchimeg Khongorzul racked her brain when she read a newspaper article online that the National University of Mongolia, her alma mater, had been built on the backs of Japanese detainees. Khongorzul, ... ( read original story ...)

Taro Kono catalogued almost 15,000 occasions when the only way to satisfy Japan’s fastidious bureaucracy was with a personalised hanko seal. He is now determined to get rid of them. In an interview ... ( read original story ...)

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Japan may reimpose attendance limits for sports and other large events to curb a spike in COVID-19 infections, economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Sunday. ( read original story ...)