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JAPAN XV

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JAPAN
Dec 11, 2020
As cases rise, government postpones Go To Travel decision to next week
'Nobody can predict what will happen next week,' said Shigeru Omi, chair of the government's coronavirus subcommittee, during a news conference Friday.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 11, 2020
Coronavirus puts an end to Tokyo shop that served ramen for 15 years
Seven other ramen restaurants have closed in the area since March.
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BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2020
Why Japan is largely a spectator in the coronavirus vaccine race
A total of 52 vaccine candidates were in clinical evaluation worldwide as of Tuesday, of which only one was Japanese.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 10, 2020
Japanese libraries hope UV machine gives visitors peace of mind
Libraries across the country are installing the machine, which takes 30 seconds to sterilize a book using UV light and flutter its pages to clear out dust.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 10, 2020
Japan’s latest stimulus boost may fall short of official forecast
Many economists expect the dollar-for-dollar impacts of stimulus measures to typically decrease as time passes from a crisis or recession.
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SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Dec 9, 2020
NSSU freshman Hidetora Hanada emerges to claim amateur yokozuna title
The Nippon Sports Science University student overcame a talent-studded field at Sunday's All Japan Sumo Championships, the country's top amateur sumo tournament.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 9, 2020
Japan firms' winter bonus payments face biggest fall since 2009, Nikkei survey says
The drop would exceed the 5.37% decline in summer bonus payments, according to the Nikkei, showing how the strain on corporate profits from the pandemic is spreading to households.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 9, 2020
No mention of China or Asia as Biden touts pick for Pentagon chief
Omission risks sending an alarming message to allies such as Japan amid hopes for a continued U.S.-led charge confronting an increasingly assertive Beijing.
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BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Dec 9, 2020
Suga raises bet on Japan's Go To Travel campaign with ¥73.6 trillion package
With Cabinet support falling amid the uptick in COVID-19 cases, he needs to balance the need to support growth against the risk of spreading the virus.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2020
Australia and Japan edge toward an alliance
On Nov. 17, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison became the first foreign leader to visit Japan since Yoshihide Suga assumed the prime ministership.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2020
Prime Minister Suga makes a $708 billion bet on political survival
The government's fiscal response to the pandemic already dwarfs measures taken after the global financial crisis, as well as the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Dec 9, 2020
B. League's Storks and Robots punished over quarantine violations
The Nishinomiya Storks and Ibaraki Robots were censured by the B. League last Friday for letting their import players join team practices before their 14-day quarantine periods had ended.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 8, 2020
Zombie companies feed off the living
Like their namesakes, zombies feed off the living. They are companies that should close their doors but don't, cannibalizing healthy businesses, depriving them of customers and income.
Takayuki Kobayashi set to announce LDP presidential bid
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takayuki Kobayashi speaks to reporters during a visit to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
The rule of law is coming for Putin
Efforts to hold the Kremlin accountable for the war in Ukraine have begun, with the International Criminal Court already issuing arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and others for unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
'The Box Man': Absurdist Kobo Abe adaptation speaks to the present
A Tokyo man who scuttles around the city in a dirty cardboard box finds himself fighting off odd characters in Gakuryu Ishii’s “The Box Man.”
Love was a most subversive affair in Edo Japan
Only two other class of persons were treated with anything like the merciless ferocity meted out to lovers: subversives and Christians.
Prepare for a new wave of anime-born bands
Produced by Toei Animation, “Girls Band Cry” follows five young women who form a band and navigate the Japanese rock landscape.
Dreading the Big One? How to manage pre-disaster anxiety.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but there are strategies to keep yourself from spiraling into stress and despair over future catastrophes.
Hurdles remain in Japan for transplants of pig organs into humans
Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in March.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
New tales in translation to give you chills and thrills this summer
For centuries, Japanese people have been scaring themselves with horror stories as a way of cooling down during the stifling summer months.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.

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