The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer "Takanami" left the Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa for an "information-gathering operation" in the Middle East amid heightening tensions in the region.
The group of Japanese Communist Party members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly demanded that Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko urgently strengthen countermeasures against new coronavirus-induced pneumonia.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Labor Relations Commission issued a demand that a subsidiary of the U.S-based Dow Chemical Company “sincerely” negotiate with the union on the planned closure of a factory in Nagoya.
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