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EMERGENCY

Japan Times
WORLD
May 7, 2015
Emergency escape system succeeds as SpaceX puts Dragon passenger spaceship through test run
A Space Exploration Technologies passenger spaceship made a quick debut test flight on Wednesday, shooting itself off a Florida launchpad to demonstrate a key emergency escape system.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 23, 2015
SkyWest cabin pressure emergency spurs FAA probe
U.S. investigators are looking into why a SkyWest Inc. airplane with 75 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2015
Tokyo metro government's ¥337 million emergency oil stockpile not in storage
The oil stockpiles were purchased in 2013 in a bid to deal with fuel shortages in the wake of natural disasters like the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 27, 2015
Northeastern U.S. hunkers down, awaits 'crippling' blizzard blitz
The U.S. Northeast on Monday braced for a massive, crippling blizzard that could dump as much as 3 feet of snow as tens of millions of people were urged to stay home and airlines canceled thousands of flights.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2015
Health care pressures grow
Expect the state of siege under which the National Health Service has labored recently to be the biggest political issue at the next election in Britain, due in May.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2014
Emergency rooms live for gunshot wounds
It was clear from the tone of the coverage in the U.S. that media gatekeepers expected people to be surprised by a Dallas hospital's decision to turn away the nation's first Ebola patient from the emergency room.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2014
Meteorological Agency cancels last alerts in rain-swept Hokkaido
The Meteorological Agency lifted the last emergency alerts for heavy rain in the Hokkaido cities of Sapporo, Chitose and Tomakomai on Thursday afternoon following earlier rainfall in excess of 80 mm per hour across much of the north.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2014
Japan to provide $1.5 million in aid to Ebola-hit West Africa
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will provide $1.5 million in emergency grant aid via three international organizations to West African nations hit by the deadly Ebola virus, including Sierra Leone and Liberia.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 7, 2014
West African health care systems reel as Ebola toll hits 932
Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia shut down a major hospital where several staff were infected, including a Spanish priest.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 6, 2014
Japan announces further Ukraine aid
Japan will release about ¥26 million in emergency funds to help evacuees from Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 24, 2014
Accident and emergency
American man: One time I went to the emergency room because I hadn't pooped in four or five days.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 19, 2014
Frozen ideas slow snow response
Despite the record amounts of snow dumped chiefly over eastern Japan in the past several days, no emergency warnings were issued by the Meteorological Agency as it stuck rigidly to criteria it set last year.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 15, 2013
The hallowed role of the U.S. emergency room
Emergency rooms are the black boxes of the U.S. health care system. From TV hospital dramas, Americans see them as citadels of chaotic caring but otherwise harbor myths about them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Nov 12, 2012
Today's J-Blip: Safecast iOS app
Safecast bundles piece of mind into a virtual Geiger counter that draws from its independently collected radiation readings.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Sep 30, 2011
Just in case: Retailers urge customers to buy ahead
No matter where you are, you should be thinking ahead and preparing for the worst-case scenario.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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