カテゴリー: Japan
The Hanare Zen is 91cm wide and 1.8m long and aims to help workers escape their overcrowded home environmentsJapanese design is renowned for its minimalism, and for keeping things simple and uncluttered.So it’s no surprise that a leading housebuilder i…
Glue and duct tape used to fit rat snakes with dosimeters and GPS movement trackers to help researchers understand long-term effects of radiationResearchers have used snakes fitted with tracking devices and dosimeters to measure radiation levels in the…
The outspoken vaccine minister is favourite for the top job partly thanks to his large social media following and backing from young peopleJapan’s straight-talking, social media-savvy minister for vaccines and reform, Taro Kono, is the frontrunner to b…
Thousands of ethnic Koreans left Japan for North Korea decades ago lured by promise of a better lifeA Japanese court has summoned North Korea’s leader to face demands for compensation by several ethnic Korean residents of Japan who say they suffered hu…
A 49-year-old man died the day after taking his second shot of the vaccine, though authorities said a causal link has not been identifiedSee all our coronavirus coverageA third man has died in Japan after receiving an injection from one of the batches …
Yoshihide Suga understood to want social media-savvy 58-year-old to take over, according to local mediaJapan’s outgoing prime minister Yoshihide Suga will back Taro Kono, the popular minister in charge of the country’s vaccination rollout, as his succe…
Leader dogged by poor opinion ratings unexpectedly announces intention to step down after just a year amid anger over Covid responseJapan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, is to step down from his party’s leadership this month amid mounting discontent …
Foreign materials including stainless steel identified in batches of Covid-19 vaccine though no safety or efficacy issues have been reportedThe Moderna coronavirus vaccine programme in Japan has been hit by a series of contamination incidents, promptin…
Drop in New Zealand cases is ‘reassuring indication’ lockdown is working, country’s director-general of health says, Japan says it’s likely that Moderna vaccines were contaminated when needles were stuck into vialsSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Ze…
Pharamaceutical giant Moderna says it’s withholding 1.63m vaccine doses over fears of contamination with particulate matter while Sydney’s health system struggles as the city reports record case numbersNHS planning Covid vaccines for children from age …
Japanese government claims water from nuclear plant released through 1km tunnel will be safe as all radioactive elements will have been removed Operators of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have unveiled plans to construct an undersea tunnel t…
Analysis: Tuesday’s meeting called by Boris Johnson may include postmortem on Joe Biden’s handling of crisisThe emergency meeting of G7 nations on Tuesday – called by Boris Johnson as this year’s chair of the G7 – is in essence a gathering of the vanqu…
‘Godfather of sudoku’ who paved the way for the worldwide boom in number puzzlesMaki Kaji, who has died aged 69 of bile duct cancer, was a Japanese publisher who achieved international recognition as the “godfather of sudoku”. His puzzle magazine Nikol…
Spanish court lifts coronavirus curfew imposed on most of Catalonia; critical care beds reaching capacity in JapanUK Covid booster jabs highly unlikely to begin soon, JCVI sources sayJabbed adults with Delta ‘can match virus levels of unvaccinated’Japa…
Critical care beds are nearing capacity in Tokyo and prefectures outside the capital are also tackling worst ever outbreakSee all our coronavirus coverage Japan has recorded a record number of coronavirus cases while critical care beds in Tokyo are nea…