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... for the law is rising as Japan gets attention over its handling of gender equality, diversity and other human rights issues. "Many LGBT people in Japan are still discriminated against ... We need legislation to guarantee human rights and equality of LGBT people," said Yuri Igarashi, director of the Japan Alliance ...
... Japan is a geologically unstable part of the world. I mean, it suffers -- there was just an earthquake recently, a couple of weeks ago. So, Japan has geological problems that are far greater than most of the United States and its nuclear reactors. So, the Japanese government can claim that ...
Japan has never had a lockdown, and movie theaters are open with social-distancing measures. The hero of "Demon Slayer" is Tanjiro Kamado, who sets out to become a warrior to save his sister, and ultimately the world, from the demons, or "oni." Like a cute doe-eyed Musashi, the ...
... equipment, authorities said. Meanwhile, Ghosn, free on bail, headed to the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo and met up with Peter Taylor, who was already in Japan, authorities say. The elder Taylor and Zayek met up with the two others at the Grand Hyatt and shortly after, they split up. Peter ...
... because their side effects have often been played up by media here. “I think it is more important for the Japanese government to show the Japanese people that we have done everything possible to prove the efficacy and safety of the vaccine to encourage the Japanese people to take the ...
... its population. Vaccines being developed by Japan are still in the early stages, so the country must rely on imports. AstraZeneca applied for approval in Japan only recently, while Moderna hasn't applied yet. Japan's reliance on the imports, many of them subject to EU export controls, is also ...
TOKYO — A strong earthquake hit off the coast of northeastern Japan late Saturday, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said there were no irregularities at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which experienced meltdowns following a ...
... 15 inches) in diameter, was dropped by Hayabusa2 from space onto a spot in a sparsely populated Australian desert on Dec. 6. It arrived in Japan last Tuesday for research that will hopefully provide insights into the origins of the solar system and life on Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged a 2 trillion yen ($19 billion) fund on Friday to promote ecological businesses and innovation to achieve his goal of zero net carbon emissions by 2050. Suga, who took office in mid-September, set climate change as one of his main policy ...
... may help explain how Earth evolved. It took the spacecraft 3½ years to arrive at Ryugu, but the journey home was much shorter because of the current locations of Ryugu and Earth. Ryugu in Japanese means “Dragon Palace,” the name of a sea-bottom castle in a Japanese folk tale.
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