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A junior high school teacher in Tokyo, who was described as a “role model” by his principal, was arrested on suspicion of killing a 63-year-old man who lived near his school.
Delays in finding hospitals that can accept emergency patients appear to be easing around Japan, but overworked and weary ambulance medics remain fearful that they could cause accidents on the roads.
Rescue workers in Tokyo say they are on the brink of collapse as they struggle to keep pace with the emergency calls made during the seventh wave of COVID-19 cases and the scorching heat.
Medical facilities across Japan were so stretched this summer that long waits were common for COVID-19 patients waiting to hear back from local public health centers about whether they would be treated at a hospital or have to self-isolate at home.
A soccer ball and flowers are offered at the site of a fatal traffic accident in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Feb. 22. The construction fencing was an opaque white when Kairi Okubo, 8, who loved playing soccer, was killed here in February 2020. (Emi Iwata) Construction sites are taking on a more transparent look in Tokyo in the wake of a traffic accident that claimed the life of a child where the driver’s view was obscured. Third-grader Kairi Okubo, 8, was struck by a van and killed on a crosswalk at an intersection in Tokyo’s Minato Ward in February last year.