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Japan’s job market showed signs of healing before omicron’s spread

The jobless rate edged down to 2.7% in December, the internal affairs ministry has reported, with the number of workers increasing by 490,000 — the ...
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Japan’s U.S. ambassador calls talks on easing metals tariffs ‘robust’

Koji Tomita said the U.S.-EU quota agreement that is now allowing some steel and aluminum into the United States duty free is a template for ...
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Sony buys Halo game developer Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony is a regular acquirer of video game studios, though Bungie is by far its largest of the past decade.
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Johnson faces fresh calls to quit as report slams lockdown parties

The report into the lockdown gatherings — at a time when Britons were all but banned from social mixing — pointed to "serious failures of ...
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Crew member of missing ASDF F-15 reportedly spotted in sea

The aircraft disappeared off radar around 5:30 p.m., probably at a point at sea about 5 kilometers west-northwest of an ASDF base in Komatsu, Ishikawa ...
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Tokyo loses population for first time in 26 years amid pandemic

The population of the capital has dropped by about 48,600 people to just under 14 million, the first decline since 1996.
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Looking to get your booster in Japan? Here’s what you need to know.

Efforts to increase the administration of boosters are ramping up, with a mass vaccination site run by the Self-Defense Forces having opened in Tokyo.
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Can the U.N. do more than talk about the Russia and Ukraine crisis?

The U.N. Security Council is due to meet to discuss Russia's troop build-up on the border with Ukraine, but there will be no action by ...
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Kishida says COVID state of emergency in Tokyo not being considered — for now

The prime minister made the remarks as the occupancy rate of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in the capital neared the 50% threshold for a ...
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‘Big dates, big fireworks’: North Korea signals more launches as anniversaries loom

Japan and South Korea find common ground amid growing possibility that Pyongyang will test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile to mark key dates.