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He’s ready to run customers around the empty streets of Asakusa, even though he knows it’s not the safest choice.
Video game studio is told it doesn’t have to close, but decides to make worker safety its priority.
Tokyo’s governor hopes having firm start date will allow athletes and organizers to better focus on preparing for the delayed Games.
Roughly one third of the planet expected to be unable to travel to Japan as part of expanded coronavirus countermeasures.
Surprise snowfall in Japan transformed springtime hanami into a winter wonderland on the weekend.
Pretty much everyone who visits Nara stops by the park to feed crackers to the deer, so are the smaller crowds leaving them hungry?
“No takebacks,” says literally everyone else but the mayor himself, but luckily for him, this story ends well.
Continuing outbreak causes organizers to call off dojinshi event for the first time in its 45-year-history.
A helping hand to Japan’s hurting ranchers that would also be great reason to social distance at home.
First signs of central Tokyo shutting down with the unprecedented closure of a youth hotspot.
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