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COVID 19

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2020
As Asia panics over coronavirus, Singapore wins praise for its approach
As governments in Asia struggle to reassure their populations over the coronavirus, public health experts say Singapore's approach in communicating to the public is providing a model for others to reduce panic, rumors and conspiracy theories.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2020
Advance team of WHO experts arrives in China to probe coronavirus
An advance team of World Health Organization medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2020
Countries rush to build diagnostic capacity as coronavirus spreads but live samples elude
A week ago, only two laboratories in Africa could diagnose the novel coronavirus that originated in China and is rapidly spreading around the world. As of Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) expected every nation in Africa to be able to diagnose the disease.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2020
Coronavirus cases outside China 'could be spark for bigger fire,' WHO warns
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the spread of coronavirus cases that had no history of travel to China could be "the spark that becomes a bigger fire" as people across China trickled back to work after an extended Lunar New Year holiday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2020
China's misguided priorities prove costly
Will the Chinese Communist Party learn from its errors in handling the coronavirus outbreak, or will it revert to its old habits of denial and distraction?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2020
The coronavirus and Xi Jinping's worldview
No matter how bad the coronavirus epidemic gets, the crisis will not change how China is governed under President Xi Jinping.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2020
Experts are getting creative to measure coronavirus blow to economy
It's a mad scramble for the best data: Economists are grappling with ways to gauge the real-time impact of the coronavirus on the world economy, even as the outbreak continues to confound forecasters.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2020
Discrimination in Japan on the rise as coronavirus fears grow
Verbal attacks against Chinese and Japanese alike are expected to climb during the epidemic if preventive action isn't taken.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2020
Japan's cities and prefectures split on whether to disclose travel details of coronavirus patients
When a tour bus driver became Japan's first case in the outbreak, it sparked a nationwide debate on how closely patients' privacy should be protected.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 10, 2020
Hong Kong protesters, on pause, see virus fueling movement
Prominent activist Ventus Lau stood outside a restaurant this week, handing out surgical masks and asking recipients to shout pro-democracy slogans — including the popular rallying cry "Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times!"
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 10, 2020
Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows
When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate of coronavirus cases despite being far from the epicenter of the outbreak. Stay indoors for two weeks, they requested.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 10, 2020
WHO advance team on coronavirus finally on way to China
An advance team of international experts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for Beijing to help investigate China's coronavirus epidemic, the Geneva-based agency said on Sunday.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2020
Amazon pulls out of major Barcelona telecom conference over coronavirus concerns
Amazon.com Inc. has pulled out of this month's Mobile World Congress because of the coronavirus outbreak, in another blow to one of the telecom industry's biggest gatherings, which attracts over 100,000 visitors to Barcelona, Spain.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 10, 2020
Briton in French Alps may have spread coronavirus to others across Europe
A British man who contracted the new coronavirus while attending a conference in Singapore may have infected seven other people when he stopped off at a chalet in a French mountain village for a few days on his way home, health experts said on Sunday.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2020
Universities in Japan take precautions in response to coronavirus outbreak
Universities are scrambling to deal with the threat of infections from the coronavirus outbreak wreaking havoc in China and around the world.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2020
Japan's state planes unlikely to be used in Wuhan evacuation effort, source says
Japan's efforts to fly home expatriates from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, is unlikely to involve government planes despite earlier plans to the contrary.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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