TOKYO - Japan reached the milestone of one million coronavirus cases on Friday (Aug 5), domestic media reported, as infections surged in Olympic host Tokyo to other urban areas and the country grapples with an unprecedented speed of spread of the Delta variant. A driver of Finance Minister Taro Aso had caught Covid-19, the Ministry of Finance said, prompting Aso.
Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as a family funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the nation.
Abe, the country's longest-serving prime minister, remained influential
Japan bid a final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as his funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the nation.