TOKYO Public hospital workers’ unions on Dec. 9 held a press conference in the Labor and Welfare Ministry office building in the capital to protest against the plans of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government to use reserve funds held in public hospitals to finance its plan to raise military.
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Jan 6, 2021
Each day that Tokyo has surpassed its own record for new cases of COVID-19, more often than not the country has as well.
On Wednesday, the capital reported an unprecedented 1,591 cases, and as of the evening new cases nationwide had passed 6,000 for the first time.
However, even though infections within residences continue to account for the largest portion of traceable new cases in Tokyo and have done since the start of the third wave in late October the state of emergency Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is expected to declare for the greater Tokyo metropolitan area on Thursday largely targets food establishments.
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On December 9, 2020, the Japan Fair Trade Commission ( JFTC ) brought criminal accusations with regard to bid-rigging involving pharmaceutical products ordered by the Japan Community Healthcare Organization ( JCHO ). Three pharmaceutical wholesalers and seven individuals were indicted.
According to news media, on November 27, 2019, the JFTC conducted dawn raids against four pharmaceutical wholesalers Alfresa Corporation ( Alfresa ), Mediceo Corporation ( Mediceo ), Suzuken Co., Ltd. ( Suzuken ) and Toho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ( Toho ) on suspicion of bid-rigging involving pharmaceutical products ordered by the JCHO. The JCHO is an incorporated administrative agency established in 2014 that has 57 hospitals, 26 geriatric healthcare facilities and six nursing schools. It provides medical and nursing care all over Japan. The JFTC reportedly initiated its criminal investigation with suspicion that the four wholesalers agree
Dec 15, 2020
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s flagship measure took a blow from the novel coronavirus Monday when he announced the Go To Travel campaign would be suspended nationwide for two weeks over the year-end holidays.
Plummeting public support, growing political opposition and experts sounding the alarm drove Suga to suspend the campaign, while the virus itself seemed, at most, a secondary factor.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, leaders have sought to stimulate the economy while containing the virus in a two-track policy that would, each time cases began to surge, be reluctantly rolled back in small steps.
“The government’s biggest responsibility is to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people,” Suga said during a news conference earlier this month.