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Abe vows efforts to prevent spread of coronavirus to Japan

January 23, 2020

Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday promised to make full efforts to prevent the spread of a new strain of coronavirus to Japan. “We’ll enhance border controls and quarantine measures in Japan,” Abe told a plenary meeting of the

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Japanese man develops severe pneumonia in Wuhan

January 23, 2020

Beijing–A Japanese man has been hospitalized in the Chinese city of Wuhan due to severe pneumonia, an official at the Japanese embassy in Beijing said Thursday. Authorities are investigating whether the pneumonia was caused by a new strain of coronavirus.

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Uniforms for Japanese olympians, paralympians unveiled

January 23, 2020

Tokyo–Japan on Thursday unveiled uniforms that will be worn by Japanese athletes during the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer and other ceremonies related to the sporting events. It is the first time that the same

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Food may have caused Okinawa swine fever: Panel

January 23, 2020

Tokyo–Pigs in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa were possibly infected with classical swine fever via food, an expert panel of the agricultural ministry said Thursday. According to the panel, leftovers, including pork infected with CSF in the central prefecture

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Japan raises travel warning for Coronavirus-hit Wuhan

January 23, 2020

Tokyo–The Japanese Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a Level 2 travel warning for the city of Wuhan in China, the epicenter of a pneumonia outbreak caused by a new strain of coronavirus. The ministry called on Japanese nationals to avoid

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Duterte threatens to end VFA if US won’t retain Dela Rosa’s visa

January 23, 2020

President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Thursday he would terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States after it cancelled the US visa of Senator Ronald dela Rosa. In a speech in San Isidro, Leyte, Duterte said that Washington should

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U.S. defense hardware sales to Japan to be checked closely

January 23, 2020

Tokyo–Tokyo and Washington have agreed to strengthen checks on the implementation of contracts to sell U.S. defense equipment to Japan for upfront payments. The agreement was reached Wednesday at a Tokyo meeting between Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency and

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Cryptocurrency thieves arrested by Tokyo police

January 23, 2020

Tokyo–Tokyo police arrested two men for allegedly stealing some 78 million yen’s worth of bitcoin, a kind of cryptocurrency, from an overseas cryptocurrency exchange, it was learned Thursday. The Metropolitan Police Department’s cybercrime unit arrested Yuto Onitsuka, 25, and Takuma

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