Tag - covid-19

 
 

COVID 19

Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 21, 2020
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 42,000 as protesters demand end to restrictions
U.S. coronavirus deaths topped 42,000 on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as more protesters gathered in state capitals to demand an early end to the lockdowns, while officials pleaded for patience until more testing becomes available.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2020
Trump and the WHO: the wrong time to pick a fight
Once again, Japan must step up to fill the leadership vacuum created by a U.S. withdrawal from a multilateral agency.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2020
The post-COVID-19 international order
The postwar movement toward an open, free, rule-based and truly globalized international order must be put on hold.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2020
Wisdom in the age of the coronavirus pandemic
The unfolding pandemic tells us that 20th century lessons that must not be forgotten in Japan and elsewhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2020
Grim truth of the ‘Swedish model’
The lack of a lockdown has led to one of the world's highest COVID-19 death rates.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2020
Why science won’t ace its COVID-19 test
In normal times, the decentralization of research works remarkably well. In a crisis, the usual process is inadequate.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 20, 2020
In Modi's India, coronavirus fallout inflames divisions between Muslims and Hindus
The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui's hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 20, 2020
People are paying real money to get into virtual Zoom nightclubs
It’s only 5 p.m. on a Saturday in Los Angeles, but the Zone — a 16-room virtual club on the videoconferencing app Zoom — is already in full swing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2020
Strength in numbers: A more open approach to tracking the virus in Japan
Like many foreign residents of Japan during the early days of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, Shane Reustle and Jiahui Zhou recall poring over websites run by the health ministry and local municipalities to try to get a clear picture of how infections were spreading in the world’s third-largest economy....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 20, 2020
The money taboo that central banks have shied away from so far
The coronavirus economy is shredding records for government borrowing and for central-bank lending. Soon it may also smash the taboo that’s supposed to keep those two things apart.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 20, 2020
Houseparty vies with Zoom to be homebound chatters’ app of choice
Sima Sistani has been getting through the coronavirus outbreak’s shelter-in-place order the past month in many of the same ways others have: home-schooling her 7-year-old, trading off parenting shifts with her husband, and jumping from room to room to find a quiet space for phone calls.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami