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TOKYO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Japan will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation in China and deal "flexibly" with border control measures, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday.The comment came a day after the Chinese embassy in Japan said it had resumed the issuance of ordinary visas for Japanese citizens travelling to the…

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Information on the easing of travel restrictions to Japan (as of 11 November 2022)   From 11 October, Australia and New Zealand passport holders will no longer require a visa to enter the country.    Japan has announced that from 11 October 2022, the following changes will be implemented:   1. The daily cap on arrivals into the…

TOKYO -- Japan, an ally of the U.S. and a capitalist nation, is one of the few countries where a political party that harbors communism has seats in its parliament. In recent elections, one of the main issues has always been how the Communist Party will work with other opposition parties.That is why a recent call for a change of…

Pre-Ceramic culture It is not known when humans first settled on the Japanese archipelago. It was long believed that there was no Paleolithic occupation in Japan, but since World War II thousands of sites have been unearthed throughout the country, yielding a wide variety of Paleolithic tools. These include both core tools, made by chipping…

Following years of lobbying from Washington, Japan and the Netherlands agreed on Friday to tighten restrictions on the export of chip manufacturing technology to Chinese companies. News of the agreement was reported by Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and The New York Times.The controls are designed to limit China’s ability to ramp up its own domestic…

Whale meat was an affordable source of protein during Japan’s undernourished years after World War II, with annual consumption peaking at 233,000 tons in 1962.Whale was quickly replaced by other meats. The whale meat supply fell to 6,000 tons in 1986, the year before the moratorium on commercial whaling imposed by the IWC banned the…

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Japan is planning to downgrade the categorization of COVID-19 on May 8 from a level similar to the strict Class II category, which includes tuberculosis, to something closer to Class V, which includes the seasonal flu. Compared with Western countries, Japan has been slow to draft an exit strategy from the pandemic. But the downgrade…

At least eight crew members died after the ship sank in the East China Sea off Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture on Wednesday, Kyodo News Agency reported on Thursday. The 6,551-ton Jintian, carrying 22 crew members gave a distress signal and sank early on Wednesday. Yesterday, the officer said that two crew members were found dead. Notably,…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan successfully launched a rocket Thursday carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite on a mission to watch movements at military sites in North Korea and improve natural disaster response. The H2A rocket, launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., successfully lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, carrying the IGS-Radar 7…

Kota EndoAn aerial photo shows Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture in January 2021.Japan says it is adopting a revised action plan on the release of treated, but still radioactive, wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean this year. In April 2021, the government and the plant…