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Japan to begin moving some off quarantined cruise ship

by Hiroshi Hiyama with Kyoko Hasegawa in Tokyo YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) -- Japanese authorities were preparing Friday to move some…

Magnitude 6.9 quake shakes Kurilsk, Russia

(Eagle News) -- A magnitude 6.9 quake shook Kuril'sk, a town in Russia, on Thursday, Feb. 13, at UTC 10:33…

Japan cruise ship virus cases jump to 218

  by Miwa SUZUKI Agence France Presse Another 44 people on board a cruise ship moored off Japan's coast have…

44 more COVID-19 cases on Japan ship: health minister

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Another 44 people onboard a cruise ship moored off Japan's coast have tested positive for the…

World’s oldest man crowned in Japan aged 112

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- A 112-year-old Japanese man has been crowned the world's oldest male, claiming that smiling is the…

Severely disabled lawmakers in Japan fight ‘invisibility’

by Miwa SUZUKI TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japanese lawmaker Yasuhiko Funago has a neurological disease that means he cannot speak…

UPDATED: Japan cruise ship coronavirus cases climb to 174

by Kyoko HASEGAWA TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- An additional 39 people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the…

Japan cruise ship now has 135 coronavirus infections: government

by Shingo ITO TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Another 65 people aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship moored off Japan…

Coronavirus cases on Japan cruise ship treble to 61

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) -- Another 41 people on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan have the new coronavirus, the country's…

Another 41 on Japan cruise have new coronavirus: NHK

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Another 41 people on board a cruise ship off Japan's coast have tested positive for the…

Thousands quarantined on Asian cruise ships in virus fight

by Harumi OZAWA YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) -- Thousands of people were stranded aboard two cruise ships in Asia on Thursday,…

Ten more on cruise ship off Japan have new coronavirus: local media

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Ten more people on a cruise ship off Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus,…

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