Japan reports 149,665 new coronavirus cases
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japan-reports-149-665-new-coronavirus-cases
December 25, 2022, 12:15 PM
Japan on Sunday reported 149,665 new coronavirus cases, down 27,957 from Saturday. Tokyo reported 15,403 new cases, down 3,328 from Saturday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with…
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3 family members found beaten to death at home in Saitama Prefecture
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/3-family-members-found-beaten-to-death-at-home-in-saitama-prefecture
December 25, 2022, 10:02 AM
A couple in their 60s and their daughter were found dead at their home in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, on Sunday morning. Part of the second floor of the…
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China urges Japan to steer bilateral ties from strategic point of view
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/china-urges-japan-to-steer-bilateral-ties-from-strategic-point-of-view
December 25, 2022, 7:30 AM
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday called on Japan to "steer the course of the bilateral relations from a strategic perspective" after the leaders of the two…
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China health commission stops publishing daily COVID figures
https://japantoday.com/category/world/china-health-commission-stops-publishing-daily-covid-figures
December 25, 2022, 12:16 PM
China's National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data on Sunday, amid doubts about their reliability as infections have exploded in the wake of an abrupt easing…
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5 arrested in deadly shooting at Minnesota's Mall of America
https://japantoday.com/category/world/5-arrested-in-deadly-shooting-at-minnesota%27s-mall-of-america
December 25, 2022, 2:15 AM
Five people were arrested in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man at the Mall of America that sent the sprawling commercial center into lockdown on one of…
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Harry and Meghan dismiss Sun apology for offending column as 'PR stunt'
https://japantoday.com/category/world/harry-and-meghan-dismiss-sun-apology-for-offending-column-as-%27pr-stunt%27
December 24, 2022, 9:11 PM
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Saturday dismissed an apology by the tabloid Sun newspaper for publishing a column highly critical of Meghan as a "PR…
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Pelé's family gathers at hospital in Sao Paulo
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/pele%27s-family-gathers-at-hospital-in-sao-paulo
December 24, 2022, 9:06 PM
Family members of Brazilian soccer great Pelé are gathering at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo where the 82-year-old global icon has been since the end of…
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Faithless singer Maxi Jazz dies at 65
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/faithless-singer-maxi-jazz-dies-aged-65
December 24, 2022, 9:03 PM
Maxi Jazz, the lead vocalist of British electronic music band Faithless and known as the voice in trance hits such as "God Is a DJ" and "Insomnia", has…
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Hatate, Furuhashi score as Celtic sweep past St Johnstone
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/hatate-and-furuhashi-at-the-double-as-celtic-sweep-past-st-johnstone
December 24, 2022, 9:06 PM
Japan's Reo Hatate and Kyogo Furuhashi both scored twice as champions Celtic strengthened their grip on top spot in the Scottish Premiership with a 4-1 victory over St…
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Stuck at the U.S. border, migrants find a little Christmas cheer
https://japantoday.com/category/world/stuck-at-the-border-migrants-find-a-little-christmas-cheer
December 24, 2022, 9:10 PM
After fleeing violence in their Guatemalan town, but with their way to relatives in California blocked by continuing U.S. asylum restrictions, a family of 15 joined an Advent…
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Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs
https://japantoday.com/category/world/taliban-use-water-cannon-on-women-protesting-university-ban
December 24, 2022, 9:10 PM
The Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn't wear the Islamic headscarf…
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Truck with liquified gas explodes in South Africa; 8 killed
https://japantoday.com/category/world/truck-with-liquified-gas-explodes-in-south-africa-8-killed
December 24, 2022, 9:10 PM
A truck carrying liquified petroleum gas has exploded in the South African town of Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, killing at least 8 people and injuring 50 others on…
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Shells pummel Ukraine's Kherson; 10 dead, 55 injured
https://japantoday.com/category/world/shells-pummel-ukraine%27s-kherson-7-dead-58-wounded
December 25, 2022, 6:36 AM
Russian shells pummeled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55 in the city that Moscow’s troops were forced to…
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Canada hosts hockey world juniors in shadow of scandal
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/canada-hosts-hockey-world-juniors-in-shadow-of-scandal
December 24, 2022, 9:06 PM
The world junior hockey championship will be held in Canada the next two weeks, shadowed by Hockey Canada's handling of explosive sexual assault allegations.
The national hockey governing…
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Bethlehem rebounds from pandemic, lifting Christmas spirits
https://japantoday.com/category/world/bethlehem-rebounds-from-pandemic-lifting-christmas-spirits
December 24, 2022, 9:10 PM
The biblical town of Bethlehem marked a merry Christmas on Saturday, with thousands of visitors descending upon the traditional birthplace of Jesus as it rebounds from the coronavirus…
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Kurds, anti-racism groups gather after deadly Paris shooting
https://japantoday.com/category/world/kurds-antiracism-groups-gather-after-deadly-paris-shooting
December 24, 2022, 9:10 PM
Kurdish activists, left-wing politicians and anti-racism groups demonstrated Saturday in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center in an attack that prosecutors say was…
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Heavy snow in Japan has caused 13 deaths, many injuries
https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan%27s-recent-heavy-snow-has-caused-13-deaths-many-injuries
December 24, 2022, 9:01 PM
Recent heavy snow in Japan's north and elsewhere have killed 13 people injured more than 80 and left more than 10,000 households without power, the authorities said on…
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Japan, 5 Central Asian countries affirm importance of rules-based order
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-5-central-asian-states-affirm-importance-of-rules-based-order
December 24, 2022, 9:08 PM
Japan and five Central Asian nations affirmed on Saturday the importance of the rules-based international order, as concerns are growing that the order could be undermined amid Russia's…
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'The Serpent' serial killer Charles Sobhraj returns to France
https://japantoday.com/category/world/%27the-serpent%27-serial-killer-charles-sobhraj-returns-to-france1
December 24, 2022, 9:11 PM
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police believe killed more than 20 Western backpackers on the "hippie trail" through Asia in the 1970s and 1980s, returned to France…
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22 dead in fire at illegal shelter in Russia
https://japantoday.com/category/world/20-dead-in-fire-at-russian-nursing-home
December 24, 2022, 9:11 PM
A fire Saturday at a private shelter in the Siberian city of Kemerovo that was operating illegally killed 22 people, Russian officials said.
Initial reports described the wooden…
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Winter storm batters U.S. power, snarling Christmas travel
https://japantoday.com/category/world/wild-winter-storm-envelops-us-snarling-christmas-travel
December 24, 2022, 9:09 PM
A battering winter storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the…
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Japanese MSDF captain suspected of leaking state secret
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/japan-msdf-captain-suspected-of-leaking-state-secret
December 24, 2022, 8:31 PM
A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force captain is suspected of leaking classified information, government sources said Saturday, the first time such a breach has come to light since the…
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Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID overwhelms Chinese towns
https://japantoday.com/category/world/packed-icus-crowded-crematoriums-covid-roils-chinese-towns1
December 24, 2022, 7:08 AM
Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID…
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Japanese firms to stop insuring ships in all Russian waters: report
https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan-firms-to-stop-insuring-ships-in-all-russian-waters-nikkei
December 25, 2022, 7:31 AM
Three Japanese insurance companies will stop insuring ships for damage in all Russian waters due to the war in Ukraine, potentially affecting Japan's energy imports such as liquefied…
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Japan reports 177,622 new coronavirus cases
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japan-reports-177-622-new-coronavirus-cases
December 24, 2022, 2:02 PM
Japan on Saturday reported 177,622 new coronavirus cases, up 4,286 from Friday. Tokyo reported 18,731 new cases, up 1,399 from Friday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with…
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Man arrested for asking teenage girl to show him her underwear
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-asking-teenage-girl-to-show-him-her-underwear
December 24, 2022, 9:02 PM
Police in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of creating a public nuisance after he asked a teenage girl to show him her underwear.
According…
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Inmate in his 60s dies after being found unconscious in Kyoto prison cell
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/inmate-in-his-60s-dies-after-being-found-unconscious-in-kyoto-prison-cell
December 24, 2022, 7:42 AM
An inmate in his 60s has died after being found unconscious in his cell in a prison in Kyoto.
According to prison officials, the inmate was found unresponsive…
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Prosecutors to indict Abe shooter after psychiatric evaluation
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/prosecutors-to-indict-abe-shooter-after-psychiatric-evaluation
December 24, 2022, 9:06 PM
Prosecutors have decided to indict the man accused of fatally shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July, following a psychiatric evaluation, sources close to the matter…
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Rapper Tory Lanez guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion, US jury finds
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/rapper-tory-lanez-guilty-of-shooting-megan-thee-stallion-us-jury-finds
December 24, 2022, 1:53 AM
Rapper Tory Lanez was found guilty Friday of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in an argument after a celebrity party near Hollywood in 2020.
A trial in Los Angeles…
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Movie fans can sue over misleading trailer, says U.S. judge
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/movie-fans-can-sue-over-misleading-trailer-says-us-judge
December 24, 2022, 9:03 PM
Movie fans disappointed that their favorite actor was cut from a film after appearing in the trailer can sue the studio for false advertising, a U.S. judge has…
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