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From 11 October, foreigners will be able to return to Japan on holiday, reopening the doors to foreign tourists without visas, after more than two years of border closures due to the Covid pandemic; the maximum daily arrival limit will also be lifted

24 Sep, 2022
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The country has launched a controversial national competition to boost alcohol consumption, asking young adults for ideas to revitalise the popularity of alcoholic beverages after a sharp drop in tax revenues

15 Sep, 2022
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The yen has weakened above $140 for the first time in nearly a quarter-century, mainly because Japan's central bank is keeping interest rates at minimum levels while the Federal Reserve and other central banks are rising hikes

08 Sep, 2022
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Haruyuki Takahashi, an executive board member of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has been arrested on suspicion of having taken bribes

21 Aug, 2022
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Japan

Highly toxic chemical waste stored near the Fukushima nuclear power plant was transferred yesterday to a town in Hokkaido, northern Japan, for detoxification, raising safety concerns for local residents

17 Aug, 2022
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Japan

At least 30 endangered green sea turtles have been found in the past weeks with wounds around their neck near the remote Japanese island of Kumejima in southern Okinawa prefecture; investigation has begun

01 Aug, 2022
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A Tokyo court ordered former executives of TEPCO to pay some 13 trillion yen ($95 billion) in total damages for failing to prevent the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

21 Jul, 2022
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The decision to hold a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving in Japan’s history who was assassinated on 8 July, has been met with mixed reactions, with critics questioning the use of state money to fund the ceremony

17 Jul, 2022
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Nearly 40 million Japan residents spent the weekend as if in the era before smartphones, after local phone company KDDI Corp. suffered its largest outage to date, affecting both voice calls and data communications

05 Jul, 2022
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Japan

Osaka District Court ruled that Japan's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the Constitution; it is the only country in the G7 developed nations that does not allow people of the same sex to marry

23 Jun, 2022
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Japan

The defence minister expressed hope that military intelligence could again be shared smoothly with South Korea, after the foreign minister said an agreement, on the verge of ending under a previous administration, should be normalised

15 Jun, 2022
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Japan

The Anti IUU Forum Japan - a group of NGOs promoting sustainable fishing - issued a statement to government officials suggesting measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

04 Jun, 2022
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From this week, borders will reopen to 50 foreign tourists who will visit the country on organised tours in small groups of up to four people, an experiment to see how and when to fully reopen to international tourists not yet admitted

23 May, 2022

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