{
  "id": 5909736,
  "title": "Influenza Season Fully Starts in Japan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/influenza-season-fully-starts-in-japan",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-06T04:14:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026090500324/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Tokyo, Sept. 6 (Jiji Press)--Japan has already entered this year's influenza season in earnest, the second earliest on record. With the start of the new school term, students are having more opportunities to come into contact with each other, and experts are closely watching how the situation will develop. The health ministry is calling on people to take basic infection control measures,...",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}