Japan Hay Fever: The Japanese government has proposed to axe thousands of cedar trees to tackle seasonal hay fever, which PM Fumio Kishida has called a social problem . The pollen allergy affects an estimated 40 per cent of the country s population
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, Japan's pharmaceutical companies boasted that they would quickly find solutions – including the development of vaccines – to deal with the global health crisis. Nearly three years on, however, those lofty ambitions have largely fallen flat. Instead, medical industry insiders say the country's laggard status in this respect has served to highlight.
For centuries, public bathhouses have been an integral part of local communities, but their number is falling as prices rise and more people take baths at home.
A scandal involving illicit payoffs linked to last year’s Tokyo Olympic Games is continuing to widen in Japan, throwing a cloud over a campaign by the city of Sapporo win the right to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. Residents of Sapporo, the largest city in Japan ’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, were already divided over Sapporo staging the Winter.