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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. BBC Asia Correspondent, based in Taipei. Previously Tokyo, Jerusalem, Moscow, Beijing.
Taipei. Taiwan.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Jun 9, 2020
    This Congolese man is staring at the severed hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter - punishment for not collecting enough rubber for Belgian King Leopold II. Today people are complaining because a statue of King Leopold has been taken down in Antwerp.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Aug 25, 2023
    If you’re worried about eating Japanese seafood because of the water release from Fukushima, then you’d better stop eating seafood from anywhere.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Jan 22, 2023
    Thankyou to everyone who has messaged me about my "goodbye" piece to Japan. The response has been truly overwhelming. I'm very gratified so many of you think i got it about right.
    Young women wear kimonos to mark "Coming of Age Day" to honour people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture on January 9, 2023.
    Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
    From bbc.com
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Feb 19, 2020
    This morning I spoke directly to professor Kentaro Iwata - who was on the #diamondprincess yesterday. His testimony is absolutely damning.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Feb 20, 2020
    I certainly have not apologised. @SatoMasahisa please withdraw your incorrect statement.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Jul 28, 2020
    Noses in the trough. Yesterday it was well connected construction companies wining and dined each other with Tohoku reconstruction funds, today it's the extraordinary (and wasteful) way tax payers money is distributed to companies hit by Covid.
    Fumiaki Ichiyama, who managed a Japanese traditional style izakaya bar named Yonosuke that closed the business this spring, watches the site where his bar was located and demolished, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan July 13, 2020. Picture taken July 13, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
    Japan stirs controversy with huge COVID aid contract for ad giant Dentsu
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Feb 26, 2020
    Japanese government coronavirus meeting today, once again showcasing the success of 7 years of PM Abe championing women. 😱
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    Yuko Takeo
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    Feb 26, 2020
    Another day, another coronavirus meeting.. this time government asks that major sporting/cultural events be cancelled or scaled back for the next two weeks
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Apr 16, 2024
    Uncle Hu fails to mention that what you’re looking at here is a Hitachi system built with Japanese government ODA.
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    Hu Xijin 胡锡进
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    Apr 16, 2024
    Chongqing’s rail transit system changes tracks so easily! It’s like playing with Legos.🚄
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Aug 25, 2023
    Replying to @wingcommander1
    And for those who say this is Japanese government propaganda - take a look at the tritium discharge from La Hague reprocessing facility in northern France in to the English Channel - it is 10 thousand terabequerels annually. 450 times more than Fukushima.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Apr 5, 2020
    Replying to @motokorich
    Japan - the only place in the world using the English phrase “over-shoot”. What does it mean?
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Feb 19, 2020
    Replying to @wingcommander1
    Part two
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    May 12, 2020
    This is remarkable and truly excellent news - and I'll admit - not what I expected, given the very limited social distancing and stay at home messaging (and testing) in Japan. Let's hope the April figures are equally good.
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    Martin Fackler
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    May 12, 2020
    Tokyo has not seen an increase in deaths during the coronavirus outbreak, a sign Japan has been relatively successful in keeping infections under control despite limited testing. japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/1…
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Jul 1, 2023
    The Qing empire. Taiwan is there. So is all of Mongolia, much of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and a vast swathe of Eastern Russia. But for some reason only Taiwan has become an inalienable part of the Chinese motherland.
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    Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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    Apr 7, 2024
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