they say there is plenty more to come over the new year. that is bad news for those about to hit the roads and railways and planes. japan is about to shut down for its biggest holiday of the year. millions of people will flood out of tokyo and other big cities heading for their ancestral home towns. this year, they may be heading into more big snowstorms, with half a metre or more of snowfall forecast in the next two days over the mountains and along the sea of japan coast. president biden has led tributes to the former us senator harry reid, who has died at the age of 82. the president called him a giant of our history .
it was blanketed by 68cm of snow. the little town became completely gridlocked. people in this part ofjapan just don t expect this much snow and they are not really prepared for it. further north, in what japanese people call snow country, it s a different story. here, people know all about how to deal with the white stuff. but even so, the amounts that have fallen in the last few days are pretty extreme, especially for december. meteorologists say the huge snowfall has been caused by a large and extremely unstable air mass sitting over the sea ofjapan. they say there is plenty more to come over the new year. that is bad news for those about to hit the roads and railways and planes. japan is about to shut down for its biggest holiday of the year. millions of people will flood out of tokyo and other big cities heading for their ancestral home towns. this year, they may be heading
and railways and planes. japan is about to shut down for its biggest holiday of the year. millions of people will flood out of tokyo and other big cities, heading for their ancestral home towns. this year, they may be heading into more big snowstorms, with half a metre or more of snowfall forecast for the next two days over the mountains and along the sea of japan coast. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. brexit meant big changes to eu/uk trade, and it s now nearly a year since new controls started coming into effect. at the start of 2021, the value of eu goods imports into the uk fell sharply, before recovering slightly, according to the office for national statistics. figures, up to october, show imports remain below pre brexit and pre pandemic levels, with the effects of coronavirus also having an impact on trade. jessica parker has visited three companies in the netherlands who do business with the uk.
japan is about to shut down for its biggest holiday of the year. millions of people will flood out of tokyo and other big cities heading for their ancestral home towns. this year, they may be heading into more big snowstorms, with half a metre or more of snowfall forecast in the next two days over the mountains and along the sea of japan coast. tributes have been paid to the model and transgender activist april ashley, who has died at the age of 86. one of the first people in the uk to undergo gender reassignment surgery, she was made an mbe in 2012 for her campaigning work for the transgender community, after her modelling career was cut short when the sunday people outed her as transgender in 1961. in 2013, she told colin paterson she had been privileged to meet some amazing people in her life. if you go through life and you meet einstein, you meet sir winston churchill,