The 27-year-old Japanese trading card franchise has exploded in popularity in recent years, leading to frenzied fans, collectors and Pokémon card players fighting for the best cards.
Pokémon is once again inspiring a worldwide craze 27 years after the playing cards first hit the market, especially in the place it was born: Japan. Shortages of the cards are leading to high prices, scalping and even robberies. In Tokyo, Thisanka Siripala reports on how the frenzy to "catch them all" has pitted high-dollar collectors against kids who just love the game.
Japan is home to a thousand different regional traditional crafts. Those industries attract domestic and international tourists and revitalize rural areas struggling with depopulation. But, the life of a traditional artisan is losing its appeal in modern Japan. From west Japan, Thisanka Siripala takes us on a tour of three towns making proactive efforts to train a new
A former pro boxer in Japan is the world's longest-serving inmate on death row. At 87 and with dementia, his case is finally re-opening in a retrial. Legal observers believe the investigation of Iwao Hakamada was hampered by undue police pressure and the Japanese legal reliance on confessions. Thisanka Siripala reports from Tokyo on what this arrest, conviction and
The lack of a digital reservation system saw many vaccines discarded due to no-shows or sudden cancellations.
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 13/05/2021
Over the next three months their patients are set to benefit from trials of virtual wards and home assessments, 3D eye scanners, at-home antibiotic kits, AI in GP surgeries and ‘Super Saturday’ clinics of multi-disciplinary teams joining forces at the weekend to offer more specialist appointments.
FierceHealthcare ~ Dave Muoio ~ 13/05/2021
Medically Home installs a suite of communications devices, remote patient monitoring devices, emergency response systems and other supplies such as durable medical equipment in a patient’s home so that providers can treat high-acuity patients outside of the costly hospital setting.