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Saturday, June 6, 2020

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LEFT PEOPLE ‘SPEECHLESS’ Aso: low virus death rate thanks to Japanese superiority June 5, 2020 Finance Minister Taro Aso is taking criticism for controversially attributing Japan’s relatively lower COVID-19 mortality rate to "the superiority of its people."
TURNING THE PAGE Public libraries struggle to learn, meet the needs of foreign residents June 6, 2020 A local library in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, offers very little to satisfy the reading needs of long-time resident Marie Shiji. Among the 270,000 general books in the library, only one is in Portuguese.

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