Convenience stores testing alcohol and cigarette sale by self-checkout
Convenience stores in Japan are considering ways to sell alcoholic beverages and cigarettes that require age verificatio...
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Honda Motor becomes the first Japanese automaker to start online sales of new cars in Japan.
read moreDepartment store to recycle clothes
The Takashimaya department store begins a project to recycle clothes by collecting used ones, manufacturing new outfits ...
read morePerks offered for those vaccinated twice
The private sector is starting to offer discounts and other perks to people who have been inoculated twice with the coro...
read morePM Kishida vows to promote "new capitalism"
Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Kishida Fumio vows to promote a "new capitalism".
read moreDepartment stores return to normal hours
Department stores in Tokyo mostly return to regular business hours after the lifting of the government’s state of emerge...
read moreRestaurants happy to serve alcohol, open for business
Some restaurants are happy to be able to serve alcohol to customers again after the Japanese government lifted the state...
read moreJapanese airlines offer gifts for vaccinated
All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines launch programs to offer lottery gifts such as free flight tickets to people who h...
read moreJapan to test new "everyday life" as vaccination speeds up in nation
The Japanese government will be testing a new "everyday life" as vaccination speeds up in the nation.
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Kishida Fumio -- who is Japan's new ruling party leader?
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