Japan sees record daily high COVID-19 cases

Japan sees record daily high COVID-19 cases

Japan sets a new record daily high of more than 9,000 in confirmed COVID-19 cases on July 28, breaking the daily records...

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Panda twin cubs weigh over 1 kg each

Panda twin cubs weigh over 1 kg each

Ueno Zoo releases footage of the giant panda twin cubs born in late June and now weighing more than 1 kilogram each.

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Japan's subtropical rainforests added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Japan's subtropical rainforests added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Subtropical rainforests on islands in Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures in southwestern Japan have been added to UNESCO’...

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Women's surfing gold medalist gave speech in Japanese

Women's surfing gold medalist gave speech in Japanese

American surfer Carissa Moore, the gold medalist in women's surfing at the Tokyo Olympics, gave a speech in Japanese as ...

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Cameras at Tokyo Olympic venue controlled from 8 km away

Cameras at Tokyo Olympic venue controlled from 8 km away

Getty Images controls cameras set up at Nippon Budokan, the venue for judo and karate during the Tokyo Olympics, from th...

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Giant puppet Mocco promotes Tokyo Games

Giant puppet Mocco promotes Tokyo Games

Giant puppet Mocco promotes the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as part of the games cultural project on the theme of rec...

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Volunteers in Saitama welcome Olympians

Volunteers in Saitama welcome Olympians

Tokyo Olympic volunteers in Saitama Prefecture, north of the Japanese capital, welcome athletes arriving at Saitama Stad...

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Olympic flame moved to smaller cauldron in Tokyo waterfront area

Olympic flame moved to smaller cauldron in Tokyo waterfront area

The Tokyo Olympic flame that lit up the cauldron at National Stadium during the opening ceremony is moved to a smaller c...

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Emperor Naruhito meets with foreign leaders visiting for Tokyo Olympics

Emperor Naruhito meets with foreign leaders visiting for Tokyo Olympics

Emperor Naruhito meets with foreign leaders visiting Japan for the Tokyo Olympics in a reception at the Imperial Palace.

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Tokyo Games victory bouquet represents prefectures hard-hit by 2011 disasters

Tokyo Games victory bouquet represents prefectures hard-hit by 2011 disasters

The victory bouquet presented to medalists at the Tokyo Games is made of flowers grown in three prefectures in northeast...

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