The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan looks to declare COVID quasi-emergency in Tokyo, vicinityTOKYO - The Japanese government is nearing a decision to declare a quasi-state of emergency for Tokyo and three nearby prefectures amid a rapid increase in the number of novel coronavirus cases in the region, a government source said Monday.The governors of Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa decided at a virtual meeting to jointly ask for quasi-emergency measures to be applied to their prefectures, as Japan is in the midst of a sixth wave of the …READ FULL ARTICLE