Thursday, March 4, 2021
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Sources: Suga to extend state of emergency for the Tokyo area
March 3, 2021 Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has decided to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency for four prefectures in the Tokyo metropolitan area for two weeks beyond the March 7 deadline, several government sources said.Tokyo Games adds 12 women to board to increase gender diversity
March 3, 2021 The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee appointed 12 new female members for its executive board on March 3, as it tries to reach a new gender diversity goal and shake a sexism scandal.
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Hunger striker: U.S. base landfill soil mixed with WWII remains
March 3, 2021 NAHA--A 67-year-old man is staging a hunger strike here to stop fragments of remains of people killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa from being used in a project to build a U.S. military base.
Sea urchin shells find new use as pottery glaze to avoid trash heap
March 4, 2021
HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but
Disease-repelling charm confirmed as skull of extinct wolf in Aichi
March 4, 2021
Mizuho Bank apologizes to irate customers over latest snafu
March 2, 2021
Mizuho Bank, one of Japan’s three megabanks, was struggling to clean
SoftBank-backed Coupang aims to deliver mammoth U.S. IPO at over $50 billion valuation
March 2, 2021
Historians describe the Nomonhan Incident, a little-known 1939 Japan-Soviet border conflict, as the starting point of World War II.
A mother of two sons recounts the days when she lived with the novel coronavirus.
The Asahi Shimbun aims “to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” through its Gender Equality Declaration.
Let’s explore the Japanese capital from the viewpoint of wheelchair users and people with disabilities with Barry Joshua Grisdale.
