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CORONAVIRUS: 3 Japanese from 1st charter flight test positive
3 from the first group of 206 Japanese nationals to return to Japan from Wuhan on a charter flight are found to be infec...
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Emperor Emeritus Akihito loses consciousness
Japan's Imperial Household Agency reports that Emperor Emeritus Akihito lost consciousness briefly on Wednesday evening,...
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CORONAVIRUS: Jetstar refuses Chinese tourists
Low-cost airline Jetstar Japan refuses to let tourists from China board a plane.
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Tokyo Olympic village plaza unveiled
The plaza of the Tokyo Games athletes' village is unveiled ahead of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
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Japanese evacuees from virus-hit Wuhan arrive in Tokyo
A Japanese government-chartered plane with 206 evacuees from Wuhan, China, arrives in Tokyo after hundreds of Japanese n...
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Japan confirms 1st domestic infection of new coronavirus
Japan confirms the first case of new coronavirus infection in a Japanese national who has not visited China.
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First heart surgery using iPS cells
Researchers at Osaka University become the first to treat severe heart disease by surgically transplanting sheets of hea...
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France's first Japanese 3-star Michelin chef
The Michelin Guide awards its coveted 3-star rating to a Japanese chef in France for the first time.
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Princess Kako's sign language speech
Japan's Princess Kako addresses the audience in sign language at ceremony to honor mothers that raised hearing-impaired ...
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Snow falls west of Tokyo
Some parts of Japan's Kanto and Koshin regions, west of Tokyo, are hit with over 30cm of snow.
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