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The ‘stealth’ subvariant of omicron is spreading in Japan. What impact could it have?

A look at the two known types of the omicron variant and what BA.2's spread could mean for the nation's health care system.
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Tokyo and nearby areas on alert for heavy snowfall

The capital, which does not experience snowfall regularly, already saw snow in some areas on Thursday morning.
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Shionogi and hospital to research development of nasal COVID-19 vaccine

The firm has also developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine and is expected to apply for approval as early as next week following clinical trials that ...
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Hong Kong sees first COVID-19 deaths in months as strategy tested

The outbreak, while small compared with other parts of the world, is putting a health system set up to root out every case under unprecedented ...
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Foreign students begin to give up waiting for Japan to COVID-19 lift entry ban

The policy, which will be in place at least until the end of February, has left up to 140,000 people who had hoped to begin ...
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Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise

China's ballooning sports industry contrasts heavily with claims by rights groups that more than 1 million people in Xinjiang have been detained in internment camps ...
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Japan, U.S. and South Korea reaffirm resolve on tackling security threats from North Korea

In telephone talks, defense ministers from the three countries agreed recent ballistic missile launches violate U.N. Security Council resolutions and are destabilizing regional security.
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The next vaccine debate: Immunize young children now, or wait?

Next week, advisers to the U.S. FDA will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months to 4 years old, ...
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South Korea’s Moon calls Japan ‘closest’ of neighbors and expects ties to improve

Moon, whose term ends in May, added that he has tried to achieve stable relations by approaching historical issues and future-oriented cooperation separately.
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Japan’s carmakers endured a tough 2021. Now it’s down to chips.

Despite Japanese carmakers being on track to increase profit, many have realized they are not in the clear yet as the supply of semiconductor chips ...