Ruling expected to affect case of her ex-justice minister husband TOKYO (Kyodo) -- House of Councillors member Anri Kawai was sentenced Thursday to a year and four months in prison, suspended for five years, for buying votes in the 2019 upper house…

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Staff sort out daily supplies and load them in a car in Daxing District of Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 20, 2021.(Xinhua/Peng Ziyang) BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's Daxing District issued a notification on Wednesday banning all people in…

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BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- With Chinese-made vaccine shots reaching people in more countries, booming vaccine cooperation with China worldwide is injecting confidence into the global fight against the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19…

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William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of 'Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades.' Asia to Joe Biden: You had us at 'hello.' This region is no pushover. But after four long, torturous years…

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- On a recent Friday in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, friends kissed hello as they entered the Racha Room, a tunnel-shaped bar lit by warm, ochre lamps. Inside, patrons shouted over booming classic rock and sipped from each other's…

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