
News by Country: Japan
28 July 2020
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Japan to conduct 1st nationwide
virus-linked mental health survey (Kyodo News, 27 July 2020)
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Japan to ask firms to ensure at least
70% of staff work from home (Japan Times, 26 July 2020)
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Japan’s average minimum wage should stay
the same amid virus resurgence: panel (Mainichi, 23 July 2020)
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Japan ministries to make separate virus
budget requests for FY2021 (Mainichi, 21 July 2020)
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Japan 1st half exports fall 15%,
sharpest drop in decade due to virus (Kyodo News, 20 July 2020)
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Graduate job hunting drags on in Japan
as pandemic stalls hiring process (Japan Times, 15 July 2020)
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Striking medical workers warn pay
reduction jeopardises patient care (The Chronicle-Herald, 15 July
2020)
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BOJ expects economy to shrink 4.7% in
fiscal 2020 due to pandemic (Japan Times, 15 July 2020)
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Foreign visitors to Japan drop 99.9% in
June for 3rd straight month (Kyodo News, 15 July 2020)
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Hospitals in Japan cut bonuses (Japan Times, 14 July 2020)
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Japan prepares support for foreign
technical trainees fired amid pandemic (Japan Times, 14 July 2020)
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Japan’s June business failures hit
monthly high for the year (Japan Times, 8 July 2020)
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Japan household spending down by record
amount (Japan Times, 7 July 2020)
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Japan drafts growth strategy for
coronavirus-hit economy (Kyodo News, 3 July 2020)
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308 Japanese companies affected by U.S.
work visa halt: survey (Kyodo News, 3 July 2020)
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Focus: Japan single mothers, female “nonregular” workers hard hit by virus (Kyodo News, 3 July 2020)
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Job losses top 30,000 as virus continues hitting
businesses (Asahi, 3 July 2020)
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Japan’s annual tax revenue falls for 1st time in 3
years (Asahi, 2 July 2020)
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Applications for welfare jump due to
poor labor market amid pandemic (Kyodo News, 1 July 2020)
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Japan to focus on female empowerment,
support for single mothers (Kyodo News, 1 July 2020)
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Coronavirus pushes Japanese business
sentiment to 11 year low (Kyodo News, 1 July 2020)
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Job openings in Japan experience sharpest monthly drop
on record (Asahi, 30 June 2020)
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Retail sales extend slump as virus curbs keep shoppers
away (Asahi, 29 June 2020)
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Only 3% of Osaka residents have received 100,000 yen
relief money (Asahi, 28 June 2020)
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Asylum seekers in Japan face battle for
survival in time of coronavirus (Kyodo News, 26 June 2020)
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Japan’s foreign students struggle with
high bar for coronavirus aid (SCMP, 24 June 2020)
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Half of telecommuters in Japan work
longer than before pandemic (Kyodo News, 24 June 2020)
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Japan’s essential care workers currently
languish at the bottom of the health care pyramid (Japan Times, 20 June 2020)
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50% young adults felt education gap
during school closures over virus (Kyodo News, 19 June 2020)
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Tokyo lifts all coronavirus restrictions
on businesses (Kyodo News, 19 June 2020)
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Over half of young adults in Japan felt
education gap as schools closed over coronavirus (Kyodo News, 19 June 2020)
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Record low 1,700 foreign visitors in
Japan in May amid pandemic (Kyodo News, 17 June 2020)
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Japan’s exports, imports sank in May amid pandemic
fallout (Asahi, 17 June 2020)
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Japan Diet ends coronavirus-dominated session
without extension (Mainichi, 17 June 2020)
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Japan’s farming faces falling demand,
labor shortage amid pandemic (Kyodo News, 16 June 2020)
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Japan scholars urge fair treatment of
foreign students over handouts (Kyodo News, 15 June 2020)
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Japan to tighten foreign investment
regulations on medical fields (Kyodo News, 15 June 2020)
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388,000 applications made under Japan’s
special loan program amid epidemic (Japan Times, 14 June 2020)
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Japan enacts record 31.9 tril. yen extra
budget to ease virus impact (Kyodo News, 12 June 2020)
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Women bear brunt of recession as pandemic unravels
Abe’s ‘Womenomics’ (Asahi, 12 June 2020)
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Japan’s 10 trillion yen to combat pandemic sparks ire
as Abe’s ‘pocket money’ (Asahi, 10 June 2020)