Japanese travelers stranded in Peru exit the country

Japanese travelers stranded in Peru exit the country

More than half of the 260 Japanese tourists stranded in Peru have now left the country.

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Japan to scale down Olympic torch relay to lantern tour

Japan to scale down Olympic torch relay to lantern tour

Tokyo Games organizers plan to scale down the Olympic torch relay to a lantern tour by car amid the growing novel corona...

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Japan to ask travelers from US to self-quarantine for 2 weeks

Japan to ask travelers from US to self-quarantine for 2 weeks

The Japanese government decides to ask travelers from the United States to self-quarantine for two weeks in an effort to...

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Japan mulls postponing Tokyo Games

Japan mulls postponing Tokyo Games

Japan begins thinking about the possibility of postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as the International Olympi...

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Olympic flame arrives in Japan

Olympic flame arrives in Japan

The Olympic flame for the 2020 Tokyo Games arrives by charter plane in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas devastated in...

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Fukushima has 1 million+ tons of radioactive water

Fukushima has 1 million+ tons of radioactive water

9 years after an earthquake and tsunami caused nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, TEPCO has 1 mil...

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Foreign visitors to Japan in Feb. drops 60% on year

Foreign visitors to Japan in Feb. drops 60% on year

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in February dropped nearly 60 percent from the year before, as the novel coronav...

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New Aegis destroyer commissioned in Japan

New Aegis destroyer commissioned in Japan

A state-of-the-art Aegis destroyer is commissioned in Japan, equipped for the first time with a system that can share wi...

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Plane to carry Olympic flame to Japan arrives in Athens

Plane to carry Olympic flame to Japan arrives in Athens

A special plane that will carry the Olympic flame to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics arrives in Athens.

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CORONAVIRUS: Japan to ban entry from parts of Europe

CORONAVIRUS: Japan to ban entry from parts of Europe

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan will ban the entry of visitors from Iceland and parts of Italy, Spain and Switzerla...

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