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Japan government says no truth to report of possible Olympics cancellation

Japan government says no truth to report of possible Olympics cancellation

5 days ago
Sports

There is no truth to a report about the possible cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Manabu Sakai, a

Japan: One dead as snowstorm causes 130-car pile-up
- 1 week ago
- Nature
A huge snowstorm has struck a highway in north Japan, causing a 130-car pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.
The storm blanketed

Japan finds COVID-19 variant in three people with no record of travel to UK
- 1 week ago
- Updates
Japanese doctors have detected a fast-spreading variant of the new coronavirus first discovered in Britain in three people who had not travelled

Japans ancient art of embracing imperfection
- 1 week ago
- Culture
Most people don’t purposefully shatter their cherished pieces of pottery, but that isn’t always the case in Japanese culture. Adorning

Shukatsu sexism: The Japanese jobseekers fighting discrimination
- 1 week ago
- Lifestyle
By Tom Bateman.

Japan to ban entry of foreign athletes during virus emergency
- 2 weeks ago
- Sports
TOKYO: Japan will temporarily suspend exemptions allowing foreign athletes to train in the country ahead of the Summer Olympics, Kyodo News

Japan to require all people entering country to submit COVID-19 test
- 2 weeks ago
- International
Japan will further tighten its border controls from Saturday by requiring all people arriving to submit negative results from virus tests taken

Japanese pray for end to pandemic in annual ice bath ritual at Tokyo shrine
- 2 weeks ago
- International
REUTERS
Men wearing traditional loin clothes and women dressed in white robes clapped and chanted before going into an ice water bath

New coronavirus variant found in travellers from Brazil: Japan government
- 2 weeks ago
- International
REUTERS
A new coronavirus variant has been detected in four travellers from Brazil’s Amazonas state, Japan’s Health Ministry

Japan declares emergency for Tokyo area as cases spike
- 3 weeks ago
- Updates
Japan declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three nearby areas Thursday as coronavirus cases continued to surge, hitting a daily

Japan's PM mulls over state of emergency amid rising coronavirus cases
- 3 weeks ago
- International
As the cases surge, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is mulling declaring a state of emergency in the greater Tokyo area amid rising

Japan may declare state of emergency for Tokyo area this week - Fuji TV
- 3 weeks ago
- International
REUTERS
Japan is considering declaring a state of emergency for Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures as early as this week, Fuji TV

Japan will ban entry to foreign nationals after Covid-19 variant detected in country
- 1 month ago
- Updates
By Junko Ogura, CNN

Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
- 1 month ago
- International
A year into the coronavirus epidemic, a Japanese retailer has come up with a new take on the theme of facial camouflage - a hyper-realistic mask

Japan's ambassador highlights his country's strategic relations with Qatar, on the occasion of National Day
- 2 months ago
- Local
Japan's ambassador to Qatar Kazuo Sunaga highlighted the deep bilateral and strategic relations between his country and Qatar currently and

Yoshihide Suga Makes a $708 Billion Bet on Political Survival
- 2 months ago
- Business
Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is preparing a third extra budget to supplement two earlier packages worth about 11% of gross domestic

Japan may ban sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles in mid-2030s: media
- 2 months ago
- International
Japan may ban sales of new gasoline-engine cars by the mid-2030s in favour of hybrid or electric vehicles, public broadcaster NHK reported on

Japan's Osaka inspires own manga character
- 2 months ago
- Sports
Japan’s three-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka has inspired a new manga character to appear in an issue of Nakayoshi magazine next month,

Earth is closer to supermassive black hole than we thought, according to space experts in Japan
- 2 months ago
- Information
By Katie Hunt,

Over 400 Sri Lankan expats return from four countries
- 2 months ago
- International
Another group of Sri Lankan expatriates who were stranded in foreign countries due to Covid-19 pandemic outbreak have returned to the island today