“We have been waiting for more than two years and with so much anticipation for this moment, it feels like it has finally arrived” ー…

The Shikoku town of Tokushima is creating a new committee to plan and fund the iconic Awa Odori, bringing back its festivities after two years…

Covid-19, the pandemic that took hold of the world in early 2020 and still won’t let go. It’s been more than a year and a…

By now, you’ve probably heard of Amabie, a plague-fighting monster from Japan that originated a few hundred years ago. According to an old Edo-period tale,…

Ever since the COVID-19 virus began to spread—something that feels like a hundred years ago—the lifestyles of people worldwide have dramatically changed. Obviously, people were…

It is appropriate to take a PCR test when having mild cold symptoms. Moreover, it’s also required when traveling to another place, so some of…

It’s been more than a year since Covid-19 spread across the world. Sunday, April 25, 2021 marked the beginning of the third state of emergency…

The novel coronavirus has completely changed the daily lives for many across the world. It began spreading in Japan around February 2020, and as of…

It’s hard to believe over a year has passed since Covid-19 spread across the world, infecting over 140 million people and taking more than 3…

Response to the spread of the coronavirus as an ongoing global pandemic has seen not only a focus on social distancing, but extra caution exercised…

The experience of shopping in Japan has definitely changed during the pandemic. Likely the same in other countries, customers almost uniformly wear masks, mostly remain…

As of February 2021, a new strain of COVID-19 is spreading throughout Japan. All over the city, we see posters calling for countermeasures to prevent…

On 7 January 2021 the Japanese government issued Tokyo’s second state of emergency since the deadly virus, COVID-19, was found to have spread to Japan….

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has urged people who are struggling with depression to “have the courage to consult someone” in response to an alarming spike…

According to the Japanese government and various news agencies , Covid-19 infections continue to spike, with national record-highs reported in December. Posters on JR trains…