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Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere
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Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere

TOKYO (AP) — Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of…
Olympic torch relay detour; diving test event opens in Tokyo
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Olympic torch relay detour; diving test event opens in Tokyo

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics torch relay will take another detour this weekend when it enters the southern island…
Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming
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Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week’s climate summit. But…
Tokyo Olympics torch relay has first positive COVID-19 case
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Tokyo Olympics torch relay has first positive COVID-19 case

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympics organizers said Thursday that a policeman tested positive for COVID-19 a day after his assignment…
Seoul court rejects sexual slavery claim against Tokyo
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Seoul court rejects sexual slavery claim against Tokyo

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday rejected a claim by South Korean sexual slavery victims…
Column: The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only
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Column: The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only

In 1964, less than two decades removed from World War II, Japan used the Summer Olympics to showcase its astonishing…
Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply
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Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked the U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of the…
Biden and Japan’s Suga project unity against China’s assertiveness
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Biden and Japan’s Suga project unity against China’s assertiveness

President Joe Biden on Friday sought to present a united front with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to counter an…
100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks
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100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2…
Japan to start releasing Fukushima water into sea in 2 years
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Japan to start releasing Fukushima water into sea in 2 years

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government decided Tuesday to start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into…
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