Police in Osaka have arrested a 26-year-old Australian man on suspicion of robbing a supermarket of 740,000 yen in Osaka earlier this month. According to police, the robbery occurred at around 10:40 p.m. on Feb 4 at the Life Corp Central Square supermarket in Yodogawa Ward, Sankei Shimbun reported. Speaking…
A man robbed a supermarket of 740,000 yen in Osaka on Friday night, police said Saturday. According to police, the man entered the Life Central Square supermarket in Yodogawa Ward at around 10:40 p.m. and threatened a 21-year-old part-time worker with a knife at the first-floor service counter, Fuji TV…
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COVID-19 medical care in Osaka stretched to natural-disaster levels : hospital chief
May 7, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Yukio Nishiguchi, head of Osaka City Juso Hospital in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, is seen speaking to the Mainichi Shimbun on May 6, 2021. (Mainichi/Satoshi Hishida) OSAKA Since mid-April, Osaka Prefecture s patients with serious COVID-19 symptoms have outnumbered available hospital beds for them, thereby forcing beds for patients with mild or moderate cases to be used to care for individuals in greater danger. Osaka City Juso Hospital in the west Japan city s Yodogawa Ward has 70 beds for moderate COVID-19 cases. Its manager, 64-year-old Yukio Nishiguchi, described the situation on the ground: We ve had cases where the disease has taken a sudden turn, and we ve not been able to get people to hospitals with beds for seriously ill patients in time. I want people to understand this is a natural-disaster level situation where they can t always receive necessary t