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07 July 2020
202007070(Tuesday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News Kyushu flooding and landslides were front and centre again (around 50 dead and 10 or so missing.) But Covid got coverage today. On the train, so caption updates wi be sporadic and erratic. See photo captions for stories (eventually ).…
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15 July 2020
20200715 (Wednesday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News See photo captions for stories. Photo 01Covid-related headlines:– Theater cluster infections confirmed in the provinces too– Government considering whether it needs to request business closures[but this supposed “topic/headline” is literally one final quote at the end of the…
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14 July 2020
20200714 (Tuesday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News The bulletin i usually watch gave neither the national nor Tokyo scores so I took those off the website. See photo captions for stories. Photo 01Today’s Japan Covid-related NHK morning news topics:– Corona infection confirmed in a part-time…
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13 July 2020
20200713 (Monday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News Lots of repetition of the usual soundbites today, as you’ll see.See photo captions for stories. Photo 01Today’s Japan Covid-related NHK morning news topics:– Tokyo had over 200 new cases for the 4th day running– Expert calls for variation…
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12 July 2020
20200712 (Sunday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News See photo captions for stories. Photo 01Today’s Japan Covid-related NHK morning news topics:– Third consecutive day of over 200 new cases in TokyoOne minor aside to the disaster-level rains in Kyushu: volunteers have to be careful of both…
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11 July 2020
20200711 (Saturday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News I overslept and missed NHK this morning but grabbed some.stuff.from.here and.there. I.am.writing.this on a phone.from a car today so thete will be lots.of.SOELLING probs and additional full.stops that don’t signify anything. [Author’s note: I will be correcting all spelling…
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10 July 2020
20200710 (Friday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News So the main Covid news is the eye-watering numbers for Tokyo that were released yesterday afternoon.Last night’s News Watch 9 furrowed their brows and even had an interview with a Tokyo University epidemiologist who wiggled in his seat at…
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09 July 2020
20200709 (Thursday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Main News See photo captions for stories. Photo 01Once again, the flooding and landslides in the Kyushu area took up most of the news, and rightly so. (A couple of days ago, one of the photos on this thread was a…
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08 July 2020
20200708 (Wednesday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News Unsurprisingly, corona news took a back seat today on most channels.There isn’t a lot of news on the covid-front in Japan anyway.I have just pulled up the numbers from the NHK website again.And I will include a couple of…
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07 July 2020
20200707 (Tuesday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News Kyushu flooding and landslides were front and center again (around 50 dead and 10 or so missing.)But Covid got coverage today. See photo captions for stories. (Stephen Walker helped with the second half of today’s translations as I was…