Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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Tsunami-hit area struggles to find foreign workers in pandemic
January 25, 2021 KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Wataru Sugawara has done his part to make this city attractive to technical trainees from Indonesia, a population segment deemed vital for Kesennuma’s continuing efforts to revive from the 2011 tsunami disaster.Cabinet approval rate, support for hosting Olympics both plummet
January 25, 2021 The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Cabinet plunged further to 33 percent while a record low 11 percent of voters want the Tokyo Olympics held this summer, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.
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Daieisho’s first championship ‘best gift’ for his proud mom
January 25, 2021 Growing up in a single-parent household, sumo wrestler Daieisho never shied away from telling others what motivated him. “I want to make my mother’s life easy,” he would tell them.
COVID-19 cases surge this month among Japan’s police forces
January 25, 2021
The National Police Agency is warning that the number of police across
Tokyo Games Twitter account suspended after user age set at 7
January 25, 2021
U.S. reaffirms commitment to Japan to defending islands disputed with China
January 25, 2021
New U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, during his first phone call
Opposition parties urge Suga to call off Olympic Games
January 22, 2021
As pandemic prolongs easing, BOJ warms to idea of wider band for yield target
January 25, 2021
The Bank of Japan is dropping hints it will consider allowing
Marubeni to hire more women, end era of men running the roost
January 24, 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.
