Japan

Japan announced a state of emergency in Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Osaka, and Okinawa Prefectures on Saturday, and implemented urgent steps to prevent Covid-19 from spreading to Hokkaido, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Hyogo, and Fukuoka Prefectures until August...

On Friday, Japan’s government will extend a viral state of emergency in Tokyo and impose it in four more regions, as cases rise a week after the Olympics were postponed due to the pandemic. On Thursday,...

Dr. AK Abdul Momen, Japan’s Foreign Minister, announced today that the country will supply more than three million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccination through COVAX facilities in stages. He stated, “On behalf of Bangladesh, I...

On Saturday, a batch of 245,200 doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive in Dhaka as a gift from Japan. Through the worldwide program COVAX, Japan is supplying this vaccine to Bangladesh. This is the first...

Twenty people are missing in central Japan after a huge landslide hit Atami city following heavy rainfall. Video on social media showed a torrent of black mud plummeting down from a mountain top and on through...

Confidence among major Japanese manufacturers has hit its highest level since 2018, a key business survey showed on Thursday, as they bet on a strong post-pandemic recovery despite some setbacks. The Bank of Japan’s Tankan business...

Climate activists urge Japan nation to stop financing coal plant located in Matarbari. The climate strike also called on Japan to compensate the local people of Matarbari for environmental pollution, provide proper rehabilitation, cancel the Matarbari...

A Japanese government panel on Thursday recommended approval of Moderna and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines, as criticism mounts over the slow start to inoculations with just two months until the Olympics. The Pfizer-BioNTech formula is currently the...

Finally, Japan has started the corona vaccination program. On Monday, for the first time, vaccination arrangements were made for the general public on government initiative. Only people over the age of 65 are vaccinated in the...

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the region of Honshu in eastern Japan. The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said the quake shook the country’s eastern coast on Saturday. However, no casualties have been reported so...