SKY PERFECT JSAT CORP. TO DEVELOP A SATELLITE TO CLEAN SPACE DEBRIS

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• Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. to develop a satellite to clean space debris.
• The project would be the first of a kind to use laser beams to remove space debris.
• An estimated 100 million pieces of space debris is said to be floati...

1ST COVID-19 POSITIVE CASE OF A FOREIGN NATIONAL IN DETENTION REPORTED IN TOKYO

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• 1ST COVID-19 positive case of a foreign national in detention reported in Tokyo.
• Tokyo Regional Immigration Services Bureau reported the same.
• The Bureau has some 200 foreign nationals in detention.
• The infect...

TOKYO REPORTED 331 NEW COVID-19 INFECTIONS ON SUNDAY

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• Tokyo reported 331 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday.
• Okinawa prefecture reported 159 new cases.
• Japan’s cumulative total infections came to about 49,000.
• The death toll was reported to be around 1,061.

JAPAN TO RAISE COVID-19 TESTING CAPACITY TO 72,000 PER DAY

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• Japan to raise COVID-19 testing capacity to 72,000 per day by the end of September.
• Currently, 46 prefectures have estimated a total of 56,000 per day.
• Peak daily testing capacity is expected to reach 11,500 in Tokyo.

MITSUI O.S.K. LINES’ FREIGHTER LEAKS OVER 1,000 TONS OF FUEL OIL AGROUND OFF MAURITIUS

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• Mitsui O.S.K. Lines’ freighter leaks over 1,000 tons of fuel oil aground off Mauritius.
• Mauritius has declared a state emergency with regard to the devastative oil leak in the ocean.
• The Japanese-owned freighter Vic...

WAYS OF CRAFTING PATENT STRATEGY

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• There are many products for whom patent are important.
• In the late 1990s, organizations like Autodesk, Adobe and Intuit managed to protect their discoveries with patents and flourished.
• The courts, later acknowledged software pa...

CHILDREN ARE PRONE TO DEVELOP SEVERE FORM OF COVID-19

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• Recent reports have claimed that children are prone to develop a severe form of COVID-19.
• One out of three hospitalized children required to be admitted to intensive care unit, as per the report almost close to the cases of hospitalized ad...

MAN ESCAPES FROM A HOTEL IN THE WESTERN JAPAN CITY FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS

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• Man escapes from a hotel in the western Japan city for COVID-19 patients.
• The hotel has been reserved for people with mild or no symptoms.
• The escapee mentioned to have left the hotel due to sanitary issues.
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JAPAN’S ‘EXCESS MORTALITY’ FIGURE LOW; HARDLY EXPLAINS THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19

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• Japan’s ‘excess mortality’ figure low; hardly explains the effects of COVID-19.
• Excess mortality is a concept introduced by WHO.
• A research team from Japan's Health, Labor, and Welfare Ministry...

JAPANESE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ASKED TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF GRANTS BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

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• Japanese central government asked to increase the amount of grants by local governments.
• The current total grant for the National Governors’ Association is about $28 billion.
• 47 prefectural governors attended an on...

CHINA CENSORING CONTENT WITTINGLY; SAVING GRACE IN GENEVA ALGORITHM

• China has given the Internet traffic obstruction powers a big update and is now using more modern intervention technology.
• This will further bolster what is known as the Great Firewall of China as it continues to shut out content, websites and apps from access by users within C...

KAZUO ISHIGURO DELIVERS A SPECIAL MESSAGE ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAGASAKI BOMBINGS

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• Kazuo Ishiguro delivers a special message on the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki bombings.
• He mentioned about the ‘supreme value’ of human life in the message.
• The writer was born nine years after the 1945 bombin...

2021 KYOTO MARATHON TO HOLD THE ANNUAL EVENT ONLINE DUE TO PANDEMIC

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• 2021 Kyoto Marathon to hold the annual event online due to pandemic.
• A running app called ‘Tatta’ will be used to monitor marathon participant’s data.
• There will be no limit in the number of participant...

HIP-HOP ARTIST SIMON DOMINIC’S LIVE ACT FOR DIE-HARD FANS AT SEJONG CENTER

• Hip-Hop artist Simon Dominic will be doing a live act in the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts’ Sejong Grand Theater in central Seoul on Sept. 8.
• The Sejong Center for the Performing Arts said it was unique for a hip-pop artist to perform at the center, which was on t...

KOREAN LANGUAGE INCLUDED INTO CURRICULUMS; CHINESE LANGUAGE UNCEREMONIOUSLY DROPPED

• On July 30, the Indian government spelt out a dictum that Korean language be taught as one of the foreign languages at secondary school level.
• Following the announcement from India, the Korean Culture Ministry on Thursday claimed that the Korean Cultural Center in India and the...