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Police in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, said Sunday that a man whose body was found floating in a river most likely committed suicide. A passerby spotted the body floating in the …

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Facebook has acquired GIPHY for $400 million to integrate its GIF library into Instagram and other Facebook apps, Vishal Shah, Instagram’s VP of product, said in a blog post announcing the news. …

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TOKYO Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike unveiled Friday a road map for the easing of measures aimed at overcoming the spread of the novel coronavirus in the capital, as Japan has …

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Japan will call for an investigation into the World Health Organization’s initial response to the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said. “With the European Union, (Japan) will propose …

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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Friday revealed a framework for the city’s plan to gradually reopen society while taking steps to prevent a second wave of the novel coronavirus until …

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Japan now has the daily capacity to conduct 22,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for the novel coronavirus, the health ministry has said. The number exceeded the target of 20,000 …

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