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Japan’s Ministry of Health has revised its criteria for the coronavirus. Experts are concerned that the old criteria are too strict and result in a low number of tests.

The home isolation policy aims to ensure that critically ill patients receive hospital care.

Japan’s health ministry says individuals and businesses will be free to make their own choices about anti-coronavirus measures after the government downgrades the legal classification of COVID-19 in May.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor…

The Bank of Japan maintained its long-standing accommodative lending policy on Tuesday, saying it would monitor advances in value and wages before raising its benchmark negative interest rate. The Bank of Japan’s policy resolution was widely expected. The central bank has also bought billions of dollars in government debt. bonds and other assets as part of its strategy to inject more liquidity to spice up the expansion as Japan’s population shrinks and ages.

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Observers say Thursday’s resolution is unlikely to cause much damage to bilateral relations, as Seoul and Tokyo, now ruled by other leaders, affect their partnerships.

U. S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel praised Japan’s contribution to the drastic “reform and modernization” of its alliance, its military capability and spending, as well as the resolution of the U. S. Army.

Rest of the world: Japanese officials visit the headquarters of Toyota’s Daihatsu subsidiary after spotting irregularities in protection tests dating back to 1989. Toyota apologizes