Loading

Search

:

Japan On Alert As COVID-19 Cases Rise

  • Category:Other
NHK
 
The Japanese government is seeing an increase in COVID-19 infections. On Monday it confirmed more than 780 new cases, the first time since October that the daily count has surpassed 700.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 103 new cases that day -- the first time the figure has risen...

More

Japan Confirms More Omicron Cases

  • Category:Other
NHK
 
Coronavirus infections have been on an upward trend in Japan. Cases of the Omicron variant and community transmission are also increasing in the country.
Tokyo confirmed 84 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, nearly double the figure reported a week earlier.
More than half of these peop...

More

Tokyo Logs 79 New Coronavirus Cases

  • Category:Other
THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Tokyo metropolitan government announced Saturday that 79 new novel coronavirus cases had been confirmed in the capital, up by 41 cases from the daily count for last Saturday. The number of new cases exceeded 60 for the fourth day in a row.
According to the metropolitan govern...

More

Kishida Pins Hopes On Wage Hikes To Accelerate Wealth Redistribution

  • Category:Other
JAPAN TODAY
 
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is counting on companies to raise wages to accelerate wealth redistribution, the centerpiece of his push for a new form of capitalism.
Companies will need to factor in a recovery in their earnings from the COVID-19 pandemic but also heftier en...

More

Jujutsu Kaisen’s First Film Takes Number One Spot At Japanese Box Office

  • Category:Other
POLYGON
 
It Had A Strong Opening Weekend
Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the first feature-length film based on the hit anime, debuted as the number one film in Japan in its opening weekend.
According to a post shared by CrunchyRoll — which is owned by the licensors of the show, Sony and Funimation — the mov...

More

Japan Firms Adopt AI Dating App To Help Staff Find Love Amid Pandemic

  • Category:Other
KYODO NEWS
 
With the coronavirus pandemic reducing chances for people to meet in person, a large number of companies in Japan, including several of its largest, have turned to an AI-powered dating app to help their employees find love, and hopefully become happier and more productive workers as ...

More

Overseas Japanese-Language Newspapers In Crisis

  • Category:Other
THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Nikkey Shimbun published its final issue this month, bringing an end to the last Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil, the home of the world’s largest community of people of Japanese descent.
There was no other choice amid the declining number of people there who can read Ja...

More

Retro Japanese-Style Hotel Room With Kotatsu, Free Ice Cream Is Both Amazingly Cool AND Warm

  • Category:Other
SORA NEWS
 
Staff thoughtfully provides everything you need to never leave the warm Showa-style kotatsu paradise.
A lot of hotels in Japan offer both western and Japanese-style rooms. The former tend to have the plusher furnishings, like sofas and beds with soft mattress, while the appeal of the ...

More

Japan Held Drill In Nov. Assuming Foreign Occupation Of Senkakus

  • Category:Other
KYODO NEWS
 
A drill Japan conducted in November at a remote southwestern island was conducted under the assumption that foreign forces had occupied the Senkaku Islands, a group of Japanese-administered islands claimed by China, according to several government sources.
The drill involving the Sel...

More

Xenophobia Spills Into Japan’s COVID-Era Debate On Immigration

  • Category:Other
JAPAN TIMES
 
From a ban on new foreign arrivals to a campaign against efforts to let non-citizens vote, a series of developments in Japan is raising new concerns about xenophobia in Asia’s second-largest economy.
Lawmakers in the Tokyo suburb of Musashino overruled the local mayor last week and ...

More