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Tokyo News: Tokyo and border linked prefectures request Covid-19 State of Emergency Kanako Mita and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis in Japan is worse now than at any other time. Despite this, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is heavily focused on the economic angle rather than declaring a state of emergency. In truth, the Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike is equally focused on the economic and Olympic angle. However, with increasing infections and strains on the health care system in Tokyo, it is apparent that Koike can no longer ignore the reality on the gr...

Tokyo News: Covid-19 daily high of over 1300 based on inaction Kanako Mita and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis in Tokyo is at its height now based on local government and central government inaction. Instead, the focus in the last few months is solely the economy. Therefore, daily new highs of new coronavirus infections in Tokyo – and in other parts of Japan – occur regularly. Indeed, it appears that the government of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and the Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike are merely hoping that the coronavirus crisis will gradually reduce ...

Islamists massacre Christians in Nigeria on Christmas Eve Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Christians in the village of Pemi, in the state of Borno, were attacked on Christmas Eve in northeast Nigeria. Once more, Islamists killed Christians at random and then set fire to a church. It is being reported that at least eleven Christians were killed in the latest Islamist terrorist attack in Nigeria. Also, it is believed that the Christian priest was also kidnapped. If so, Islamists will either try to convert him to Islam, ransom him, or kill him based on a familiar brutal pat...

Kanako Mita and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games look set to become the most expensive in the history of the Olympics. Yet, the ultra-modern city of Tokyo doesn’t need the games to develop its infrastructure. Therefore, the planned final costs are horrendous. Hence with the final cost expected to be $15.9 billion, this is shockingly high. It comes at a time when many people are struggling because of economics based on the longevity of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. Also, with Japan being heavily in debt – and now the Tokyo Met...

UK highly infectious Covid-19 variant leads to Europe issuing travel bans Chika Mori and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis in the United Kingdom is reaching a new stage because now this nation is blighted by a more-infectious variant. Thus internal restrictions are being imposed by the government. Likewise, several European nations are issuing flight bans on the United Kingdom. It is known that the new variant is roughly 70 percent more infectious. Hence, this will put further strains on the health care system. At the moment, the official death toll in the...