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Thanks to the looming labor crunch nationwide, workers who once had to toil away in jobs with poor wages and working conditions now have a variety of options before them.
Yutaka Kobayashi has rushed to several disaster areas over the years to provide emergency medical care, but the situation he encountered in the Noto Peninsula region of Ishikawa Prefecture is “the worst ever,” he said.
Doctors and experts have grown alarmed about the sudden increase in emergency room visits among teens and 20-somethings who have seemingly overdosed on pharmaceutical medications.
The new president of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) will continue to press the government to appoint six members to the council who were rejected by the Suga administration three years ago.
Unscrupulous businesses are reportedly preying on elderly people who live alone, prompting the government to start an investigation with an eye on possible legal restraints in the unregulated industry.