Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday the government would consider declaring a state of emergency for the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area as coronavirus cases climb and strain the …
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Japan will consider issuing a new emergency declaration after governors in the capital region urged action to tackle a record surge in COVID-19 cases, the head of the nation’s pandemic …
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TOKYO: Scores of flights were cancelled as heavy snowfall hit several areas of Japan on Thursday, while New Year’s Eve celebrations were curtailed as the country tackles a third wave …
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SINGAPORE — Stocks in Japan were set to trade lower at the Wednesday open after major indexes on Wall Street snapped their multi-day winning streaks overnight. Futures pointed to a …
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Home » Website » International » New Coronavirus Strain: Japan Halts Foreign Arrivals, Tightens Restrictions Associated Press (AP) 2020-12-27T08:43:50+05:30 New Coronavirus Strain: Japan Halts Foreign Arrivals, Tightens Restrictions outlookindia.com 2020-12-27T10:58:23+05:30 …
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France and Japan have reported their first cases of the coronavirus variant that prompted lockdowns in Britain and is feared to be more contagious than other strains. France’s first reported …
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The Japanese government will ban entry to most foreigners through the end of January as coronavirus cases reach record highs there and the nation confirmed its first cases of the …
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Japan, Spain and France find the new coronavirus variant, mostly linked to travel from Britain.
Japan, Spain and France have found small numbers of infections involving a new, potentially more transmissible variant of the coronavirus, most linked to travel from the U.K., where it was …
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Japan on Saturday said it would temporarily ban non-resident foreign nationals from entering the country as it tightens its borders following the detection of a new, highly infectious variant of …
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The programme calls for auto industries to go carbon free by the mid-2030s. Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said on Friday in a …
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TOKYO: A Japanese health ministry panel said on Friday that people aged 65 or older should get priority for vaccination against COVID-19 as the government sets guidelines that will also …
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Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh and Japanese defence minister Kishi Nobuo on Tuesday discussed aggressive actions by China in the region and called for increased cooperation in the maritime domain. …
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Ezra F. Vogel, an eminent scholar of East Asia at Harvard University whose writings about modern politics and society in China and Japan helped shape how the world understood the …
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India and Japan have devised a mechanism for cooperation in the steel industry at the joint secretary level and will see both sides discussing a number of issues in the …
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TOKYO: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe submitted to voluntary questioning by Tokyo prosecutors on Monday in a case against his secretary over unreported political funds, public broadcaster NHK reported …
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By: Reuters | Tokyo | December 18, 2020 4:50:15 pm Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. (AP) Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was questioned by Tokyo prosecutors on or …
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Reports of the traffic jam, on the Kanetsu Expressway connecting Tokyo and Niigata prefectures, began emerging on Wednesday. By the early hours of Thursday morning, authorities had closed the highway …
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The Japanese government has a supply deal with Pfizer for 120 million vaccine doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Friday …
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Japan stocks set for mixed start as U.S. Fed commits to continuing to support the economy; Australia jobs data ahead
Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 closed 0.2% higher at 3,701.17. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.5% to end its trading day at 12,658.19, seeing intraday and closing all-time highs. The Dow …
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By: Reuters | Tokyo | December 16, 2020 3:00:48 pm Suga’s outings came after the government abruptly halted a government travel subsidy programme he had long defended, the latest wrangle …
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TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with arson and murder in connection with a fire last year that killed 36 at an animation studio in Kyoto, the …
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By: AP | Tokyo | Updated: December 15, 2020 6:40:28 pm Police arrested Shiraishi in 2017 after finding the bodies of eight females and one male in cold-storage cases in …
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New Delhi | December 10, 2020 12:59:23 pm The controversy dates back to November, when Arai released an e-book in which she claimed that she had been forced into a …
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India and Japan on Tuesday discussed cooperation in 5G and took up new proposals for cooperation in the Information Technology sector at the virtual meet of telecommunications Ministries of Japan and India. …
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India and Japan on Tuesday discussed cooperation in 5G and took up new proposals for cooperation in the Information Technology sector at the virtual meet of telecommunications Ministries of Japan …
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SINGAPORE — Japan’s state minister of defense says China’s growing maritime activities in the waters surrounding Japan is a threat. “We feel fear from the Chinese expanding naval power throughout …