Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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COVID-19 bills to impose fines, prison terms for noncompliance
January 19, 2021 Fines of up to 500,000 yen ($4,800) against noncompliant companies and criminal penalties for defiant patients are the main features of revision bills that are heading to the Diet to fight the novel coronavirus.Method lets more females enter the male-dominated farmed eel world
January 20, 2021 NISHIO, Aichi Prefecture--Scientists here say a common food ingredient increases the chances of farmed eels becoming females, which are larger, softer and tastier than their more abundant male counterparts.
SPEAKING UP
Young activist pushes for youth input on gender equality policies
January 20, 2021 Ayano Sakurai was shocked when a male high school classmate told her to “shut up” and that “girls should remain quiet and stay cute.”
Funding law for areas home to nuclear plants eyed for renewal
January 19, 2021
The central government plans to extend by 10 years a soon-to-sunset
Tokyo infections top 1,000; virus hits hospital, prison in area
January 19, 2021
Japan’s big three carriers drop prices but plans roughly the same
January 14, 2021
All three of Japan’s major mobile carriers are launching new,
Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing’s operating profit beats pre-pandemic level
January 14, 2021
Historians describe the Nomonhan Incident, a little-known 1939 Japan-Soviet border conflict, as the starting point of World War II.
A mother of two sons recounts the days when she lived with the novel coronavirus.
The Asahi Shimbun aims “to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” through its Gender Equality Declaration.
Let’s explore the Japanese capital from the viewpoint of wheelchair users and people with disabilities with Barry Joshua Grisdale.
