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Japan's top court orders government to compensate disabled people who were forcibly sterilized
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoAn estimated 25,000 people were sterilized between the 1950s and 1970s without consent to “prevent...
Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks
Engadget via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoKono’s agency started his crusade against ‘90s era computer technology in 2022 shortly after his appointment to the Digital Agency. Around 1,900 of Japan
Optimism rising high, soft landing on track
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 11 hours agoJapan's Nikkei 225 index scraped a new record high of 41,100 points on Friday and has risen some 7% in just two weeks, and the MSCI Emerging Market and...
Japan faces shortage of almost a million foreign workers in 2040, think tank says
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 4 days agoJapan faces a shortage of almost one million foreign workers in 2040 if the government wants to...
Nearly 500 people hospitalised in Japan after taking red yeast supplements
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoAs many as 492 people have been hospitalised as of Sunday, 291 of them with kidney diseases, the ...
Forget right or left. Voters are sick of whoever's in charge.
INSIDER via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoA spring 2024 poll from Pew Research Center found that just 36% of people in 12 countries — the US,...
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Reuters via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoJapan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited ...
'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
PC Gamer via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoThose memories are hazy, though, and many of you might have no memory of floppy disks at all. Unless...
Japan's Supreme Court rules that forced sterilisation law was unconstitutional
France 24 via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoThousands of Japanese people who were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 will be able to...
Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoFloppy disks fell out of fashion in the 1990s as more efficient storage solutions were invented [Getty Images] It's taken until 2024, but Japan has...
