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Is ramune another COVID-19 casualty? Iconic Japanese soda faces plummeting sales and bleak summer
- Ingrid Tsai
May 8, 2021 - Tweet
Not the ramune!
Japan’s PM says plenty of nurses available to work Olympics since “many are taking time off now”
- SoraNews24
May 1, 2021
Not the best time to be moving much-needed healthcare workers.
- Japan
- (2021 Olympics • 2021 Tokyo Olympics • coronavirus • COVID-19 • nurses • Prime Minister Suga • Suga)
Tokyo goes dark as Governor asks for lights out in the city to help fight pandemic 【Pics, Videos】
- Oona McGee
Apr 28, 2021
Japan’s capital struggles to contain its fourth wave of infections, but are people heeding warnings to avoid street drinking after dark?
- Japan
- (Akihabara • coronavirus • COVID-19 • news • Sensoji • Shibuya • shinjuku • state of emergency • Tokyo • twitter • Yuriko Koike)
Coronavirus vaccinations for general public in Japan to start in mid-July at the earliest
- Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2021
Trained dentists granted special permission to administer shots.
- Japan
- (COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • health • vaccinations)
The Internet reacts to Osaka governor’s comical COVID-19 countermeasure with stunned disbelief
- Katy Kelly
Apr 15, 2021
Japanese netizens need a little more reassurance than a cardboard mask.
- Japan
- (COVID-19 • Eating Mask • health and safety • Hirofumi Yoshimura • internet • Osaka • politicians • social media)
Japanese businesses to reopen automatic hand dryers in public restrooms
- Master Blaster
Apr 14, 2021
New study fears shutting them down might do more harm than good.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • hand dryers • health • Japan Business Federation • Public restrooms • safety)
New crowdfunding project from Japan mixes COVID-19 comedy with a touch of Kyoto craftsmanship
- Katy Kelly
Apr 12, 2021
Get ready to meet some art that’s simultaneously brand new and ages-old.
- Japan
- (art • COVID-19 • crowdfunding • culture • face masks • Kyoto • local artists • masks • Noh • Noh masks)
Hyogo Prefecture to give 320,000 fans to restaurants for customers to cover mouths, dine “safely”
- Scott Wilson
Apr 10, 2021
It’s better than nothing, but….
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • fans • Hyogo • Hyōgo Prefecture • Japanese fans • sensu • Uchiwa)
2020: The year of ARASHI that never was
- Master Blaster
Mar 16, 2021
Even ARASHI can’t always get what they want.
- Japan
- (arashi • boy bands • coronavirus • COVID-19 • J-Pop • Johnny & Associates • Johnny's • music • National Stadium)
Tokyo experiences drop in population for seventh consecutive month
- Krista Rogers
Mar 3, 2021
The higher rates of coronavirus infection and continuing State of Emergency in the nation’s capital are said to be behind the exit of residents.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • drop • moving • population • state of emergency • Tokyo • Tokyo Prefecture)
Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato asks China to stop anally testing Japanese visitors for COVID-19
- Master Blaster
Mar 3, 2021
Travelers being put in a very uncomfortable position.
- China, Japan
- (anal PCR test • Chief Cabinet Secretary • coronavirus • COVID-19 • katsunobu kato • PCR test • politics • travel)
Yakuza leadership airs complaints about COVID-19’s effect on money gains and operations
- Ingrid Tsai
Mar 1, 2021
Nothing to shed tears over, really.
- Japan
- (business • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • festivals • food stalls • hanami • yakuza)
Births in Japan hit record low in 2020, deaths down for first time in over a decade
- Master Blaster
Feb 24, 2021
2021 might be even less reproductive.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • coronavirus • COVID-19 • death rate • Labor and Welfare • Ministry of Health)
If you die from the COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, the government will give your family over 44M yen
- Master Blaster
Feb 21, 2021
$420,000? Now that’s putting your money where your mouth is.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • death • Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare • money • safety • vaccination • vaccine)
Prefectural governor wants 2021 Olympics and torch relay cancelled, Tokyo not pleased
- Katie Pask
Feb 21, 2021
Fellow politicians call for Shimane governor to be reprimanded for his comments.
- Japan
- (2021 Tokyo Olympics • COVID-19 • government • Olympics • Shimane • Shimane Prefecture • Tokyo • Tokyo Olympics)
Kyoto slammed for manga telling people not to talk at restaurants
- Oona McGee
Feb 20, 2021
Four-panel manga fires up the Internet.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • eating • Eating Out • food • izakaya • Kyoto • manga • pandemic • restaurants)
Coronavirus vaccinations finally begin in Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2021
Eight inoculation centers begin administering shots as first vaccine shipment arrives in the country.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • health • medicine • pandemic • vaccination • vaccine)
Long-running manga character is heavily implied to have COVID-19 in latest issue
- Krista Rogers
Feb 16, 2021
Manga readers are concerned about the fate of Kosaku Shima, whose corporate developments they’ve been following since 1983.
- Japan
- (anime • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Kenshi Hirokane • Kosaku Shima • manga • Salaryman • salarymen • society)
Tokyo Tower lights up with hope in first-ever event celebrating Chinese New Year
- Katie Pask
Feb 11, 2021
It’s the first time in the tower’s history for such an event to happen.
- China, Japan
- (awesome • beautiful • China • Chinese New Year • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Hope • Tokyo • Tokyo Tower)
Foreign Reuters journalist in Tokyo spreads mutant strain of coronavirus
- Oona McGee
Feb 11, 2021
People like this are giving foreigners in Japan a bad name.
- Japan
- (COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • journalism • journalists • lockdown • news • quarantine • reuters • state of emergency • Tokyo • travel)
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