Abe vows efforts to prevent spread of coronavirus to Japan
January 23, 2020
Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday promised to make full efforts to prevent the spread of a new strain of coronavirus to Japan. “We’ll enhance border controls and quarantine measures in Japan,” Abe told a plenary meeting of the
Japanese man develops severe pneumonia in Wuhan
January 23, 2020
Beijing–A Japanese man has been hospitalized in the Chinese city of Wuhan due to severe pneumonia, an official at the Japanese embassy in Beijing said Thursday. Authorities are investigating whether the pneumonia was caused by a new strain of coronavirus.
Food may have caused Okinawa swine fever: Panel
January 23, 2020
Tokyo–Pigs in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa were possibly infected with classical swine fever via food, an expert panel of the agricultural ministry said Thursday. According to the panel, leftovers, including pork infected with CSF in the central prefecture
Japan raises travel warning for Coronavirus-hit Wuhan
January 23, 2020
Tokyo–The Japanese Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a Level 2 travel warning for the city of Wuhan in China, the epicenter of a pneumonia outbreak caused by a new strain of coronavirus. The ministry called on Japanese nationals to avoid
U.S. defense hardware sales to Japan to be checked closely
January 23, 2020
Tokyo–Tokyo and Washington have agreed to strengthen checks on the implementation of contracts to sell U.S. defense equipment to Japan for upfront payments. The agreement was reached Wednesday at a Tokyo meeting between Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency and
Cryptocurrency thieves arrested by Tokyo police
January 23, 2020
Tokyo–Tokyo police arrested two men for allegedly stealing some 78 million yen’s worth of bitcoin, a kind of cryptocurrency, from an overseas cryptocurrency exchange, it was learned Thursday. The Metropolitan Police Department’s cybercrime unit arrested Yuto Onitsuka, 25, and Takuma
Genkai mayor returns dubious money after nuclear scandal erupts
January 23, 2020
Genkai, Saga Pref.–The mayor of a southwestern Japan town hosting a Kyushu Electric Power Co. nuclear plant has revealed that he returned dubious money he had received from a construction firm, only after a high-profile nuclear business scandal erupted elsewhere
Toyota to recall 20,000 vehicles for Takata air bags
January 22, 2020
Tokyo–Toyota Motor Co. informed Japan’s transport ministry on Wednesday of plans to recall a total of 20,945 vehicles of 21 models, including the Vitz compact, due to old-type defective air bags of Takata Corp. According to the ministry, the air
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