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Municipal officials are warming up to giving a new lease on life to special freezers for COVID-19 vaccines as the fully publicly funded inoculation program nears the end.
More than 14,000 people are still displaced struggling without running water in the cold of the West Coast winter. Local parishes are involved in helping, starting with a support centre that opened on 20 January in Kanazawa.
Japan has released its 2023 Population Movement Report, based on registered residents, revealing that seven prefectures, including Tokyo, have experienced a net migration intake, with Tokyo witnessing the most significant increase.
Tokyo and the surrounding areas saw more people moving in than leaving in 2023, highlighting the growing demographic imbalance caused by centralization around the capital.
Around 1,000 residents of elderly care facilities in the Noto Peninsula have been forced to relocate by the Jan. 1 earthquake, a difficult transition for both the patients and their caretakers.