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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jun 5, 2020
Hokkaido farms and fisheries hit as campus closure robs them of workers
With university students having headed home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, business owners are feeling the effects of a severe labor shortage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jun 5, 2020
Care workers in Nagoya struggle to aid elderly in coronavirus pandemic
After clusters of COVID-19 infections were reported at care centers, the city asked some facilities to close down for two weeks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 5, 2020
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka heads online in desperate times
By taking a key arts festival online, Satoshi Miyagi is finding ways to ensure that theater survives the pandemic.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2020
Hong Kong democracy activists press Japan to reconsider Xi visit
Pro-democracy campaigners say timing of such a trip would be inappropriate given current international criticism over the human rights situation in the city.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2020
Japan softens re-entry ban that left foreign residents stranded
The government says it has softened its stance on humanitarian grounds and will now allow foreign residents to re-enter the country regardless of their visa status.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2020
Tokyo reports 28 new coronavirus cases Thursday
Tokyo confirmed 28 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, two days after Gov. Yuriko Koike issued a Tokyo Alert in a sign of a possible resurgence of infections in the capital.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2020
Japan's COVID-19 recovery plan frustrates struggling restaurants
The nation's u00a5230 trillion stimulus is falling short of sufficient support for small businesses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 4, 2020
COVID-19 plays the spoiler as stages try to reopen in Japan
Even in the age of COVID-19, the show must go on, and go on it will.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jun 3, 2020
Troubling trends demand that Japan take action at sea
The Maritime Self-Defense Force will likely be relegated to second place permanently within this decade if China's naval construction program maintains its current pace.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2020
Coronavirus spike prompts Tokyo alert, but how useful is new alarm?
System introduced as part of the city's plan to gradually reopen society while preventing a second wave of infections.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
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