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Japan to remove travel ban for 12 countries including China next month

Japan is planning to remove a ban on overseas travel to China and 11 other countries and regions from November 1, which is the first reduction after the COVID-19 outbre

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Japan to remove travel ban for 12 countries including China: media

Japan is planning to remove a ban on overseas travel to China and 11 other countries and regions from November 1, which is the first reduction after the COVID-19 outbreak, the Yomiuri newspaper repor

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Japan's Suga seen holding off on calling snap election this year

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is likely to hold off calling a snap election this year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the economy, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Japan's Suga willing to reorganize health ministry after COVID-19 pandemic

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, currently the leading candidate to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), said he would like t

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Japan plans to invite TSMC to build joint chip plant - Yomiuri

Japan is aiming to invite Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd or other global chipmakers to build an advanced chip manufacturing plant jointly with domestic chip equipment suppliers, the Yom

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Tokyo Governor Yuriko says Games could be streamlined

Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko said here on Thursday that discussions are underway to streamline the Olympics and Paralympics. Japan's broadcaster NHK quoted Yuriko as sa

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Tokyo has no 'Plan B' for Olympic Games despite coronavirus outbreak

Tokyo has no Plan B for this year's Summer Olympics despite alarm over the spread of the coronavirus in Japan and elsewhere with under five months before the event, a senior official said on Frida

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Tokyo has no 'Plan B' for Olympic Games despite coronavirus outbreak

Tokyo has no Plan B for this year's Summer Olympics despite alarm over the spread of the coronavirus in Japan and elsewhere with under five months before the event, a senior official said on Frida

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Japan cruise ship virus cases climb to 174

Another 39 people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities said Wednesday, as thousands more steel the

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U.S. plane leaves Wuhan, China with Americans on board

A closed entrance at the north terminal at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, where a flight plane carrying U.S. citizens being evacuated from Wuhan, China is expec