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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on citizens on Friday to spend a "silent" New Year to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has been breaking infection records almost on a daily basis.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged the nation on Friday to spend a quiet New Year period without the usual social gatherings to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which has been breaking infection records almost on a daily basis.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday corrected statements he had made in parliament related to a political funding scandal that has also cast a pall over the current premier and apologized for it to the public.

TOKYO (Reuters) — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics will spend $900 million on measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus at next years Games, they said on Tuesday, as they unveiled their latest budget for the delayed tournament. The organizers repeated their projection that the total cost of the postponement, including the COVID-19 countermeasures, would come to about $2.8 billion, bringing the entire cost of holding the Games to about $15.4 billion. "We want to build the best possible sy...

22 Dec 2020 / 17:43 H. By Ju-min Park and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics will spend $900 million on measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus at next years Games, they said on Tuesday, as they unveiled their latest budget for the delayed tournament. The organisers repeated their projection that the total cost of the postponement, including the COVID-19 countermeasures, would come to about $2.8 billion, bringing the entire cost of holding the G...

U-turn on travel subsidy adds to pressure on Japanese PM Reuters 15/12/2020 By Sakura Murakami and Yoshifumi Takemoto © Reuters/POOL FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference in Tokyo By Sakura Murakami and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Even as coronavirus infections in Japan hit record highs and government support ratings slipped, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga defended a government tourism campaign, defying experts and deny...