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The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it?

Article Agency - 28 Jan 2020

A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 81 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city...

Japan’s Abe warns conflict with Iran impacts entire world

World Agency - 13 Jan 2020

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that military confrontation with Iran will impact global peace and stability, as he visits the...

Japan urges Ghosn to return as fugitive tycoon defends escape

Article Sara Hussein & Miwa Suzuki - 9 Jan 2020

Ghosn made his first public appearance since his audacious December escape at a combative press conference in Beirut on Wednesday

Cherry blossoms prompt full-blown scandal for Japan’s PM

Article Kyoko Hasegawa - 9 Dec 2019

It's the latest headache for Japan's longest-serving premier, who has already weathered two cronyism scandals in recent years

Boks stuck in semi-final Catch-22

Article Luke Feltham - 25 Oct 2019

The Boks have been unstoppable since their opening game but question marks persist

Boks braced for ‘slippery’ Wales in World Cup semifinal

Article Alastair Himmer - 25 Oct 2019

South Africa hasn't reached the World Cup final since lifting the Webb Ellis Cup in 2007

Brave Blossoms epitomise belief

Article Luke Feltham - 18 Oct 2019

Japan’s rugby team have beaten SA before but the Boks are still favourites to win their quarterfinal

World must adapt to ‘inevitable’ climate change, warns report

Article Marlowe Hood & Sijia Li - 11 Sep 2019

Without action by 2030, climate change could push more than 100-million people in developing countries below the poverty line

TICAD 7: Investment, job creation, and skills development for South Africa

Article Norio Maruyama - 10 Sep 2019

TICAD 7 promoted further trade and investment, capacity and skills development and people-to-people exchanges between Africa and Japan

Japan’s Abe vows to reform constitution despite no ‘supermajority’

Article Agency - 22 Jul 2019

His ruling coalition retained its majority in the upper house in Sunday's vote for around the half the seats in the chamber

Woman sues Tokyo medical schools over discrimination

Article Agency - 5 Jun 2019

Last year it emerged that medical universities had routinely altered the admissions test scores of applicants to keep some of them out

Crisis-hit Nissan issues fresh profit warning

Article Richard Carter - 24 Apr 2019

The firm downgraded its projection for net profit in the fiscal year to March 2019 from 410-billion yen to 319-billion yen

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