More than 1,000 people in Japan spent Thursday night stuck on a highway in their cars, waiting out a traffic jam with little food or water during a heavy snowstorm.
Read articleParis-based Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, famous for creating the international luxury fashion house Kenzo, died in Paris on Sunday due to Covid-19 related complications, a spokesperson for Takada's luxury K-3 brand said in a statement sent to CNN.
Read articleA woman running a sex worker-dispatching business sued the state on Wednesday, saying its blanket exclusion of the sex industry from a cash handout program to support small companies hit by the Corona virus is discrimination banned under the Constitution.
Read articleA giant robot based on a character from a classic anime series has undergone testing in the Japanese city of Yokohama.
Read articleJapan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he will resign over his declining health, telling a shocked country that the return of a chronic bowel condition had left him unable to steer it through the coronavirus pandemic.
Read articleThis drainage canal in Japan is a living proof that not all canals are dirty, some can even be a habitat for animals.
Read articleConforming to social norms is the primary motive for Japanese to wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic, survey results recently showed, dismissing the oft-touted reason that wearers are putting them on to protect themselves and others.
Read articleWhen the Covid-19 pandemic made face masks an everyday essential, Japanese startup Donut Robotics spotted an opportunity. They created a smart mask — a high-tech upgrade to standard face coverings, designed to make communication and social distancing easier.
Read articleApril’s 20% drop compared with a year earlier may be the result of delays to start of school year, less commuting and more time with family
Read articleSensitive creatures are starting to hide when keepers walk past, as a result of the lack of visitors
Read articleJapan’s northern island of Hokkaido offers a grim lesson in the next phase of the battle against COVID-19. It acted quickly and contained an early outbreak of the coronavirus with a 3-week lockdown. But, when the governor lifted restrictions, a second wave of infections hit even harder. Twenty-six days later, the island was forced back into lockdown.
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