All posts tagged "Japan"
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123WORLD NEWSJapan’s Kenzaburo Oe, awarded Nobel for poetic fiction, dies
TOKYO (AP) — Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan’s postwar occupation...
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113WORLD NEWSAmerica Planned to Strike Germany and Japan with 75,000 Reverse-Engineered Nazi Missiles
Exactly one month after the first of thousands of Nazi V-1 “Buzz Bomb” cruise missiles began raining terror and death on London, a Dakota...
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121WORLD NEWSJapan just found 7,000 islands it didn’t know it had
Japan has recounted its islands – and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority...
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113WORLD NEWSSource: Dutch, Japanese join US limits on chip tech to China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan and the Netherlands have agreed to a deal with the U.S. to restrict China’s access to materials used...
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118HEALTHThe Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron
For the past several months, Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have dominated COVID-19 cases in the U.S. But now, there’s a class...
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220TRAVELYou’ll Need a Visa to Enter Japan Now
Photo by ShutterstockJapan has technically reopened to foreign tourists but it takes a lot to get there—including a visa.As of June 10, Japan...
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166WORLD NEWSYen falls as Bank of Japan bucks rate rise trend
The yen has fallen sharply after Japan’s central bank kept its ultra-low interest rates on hold even as policy makers around the...
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409WORLD NEWSJapan police search house of man linked to deadly Osaka fire
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Japanese police on Saturday searched the house of one of the patients at a mental clinic where a...
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337WORLD NEWSUp to 27 feared dead in building fire in Japan
Up to 27 people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in a shopping district in Osaka, Japan,...
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852WORLD NEWSTrains packed with commuters as Japan fully ends emergency
TOKYO (AP) — Japan fully came out of a coronavirus state of emergency for the first time in more than six months...
