Japan fell silent today to mark 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country’s living memory: the powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown that traumatised a nation. A minute’s silence was observed across the country at 2.46 pm local time , the precise moment a 9.0 magnitude quake hit off the … Read more
Lady Gaga shares a moving message with her Japanese fans on the 10th anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 01:57 GMT, 11 March 2021 | Updated: 01:59 GMT, 11 March 2021 Lady Gaga has shared a moving message with her Japanese fans on the 10th anniversary of … Read more
Overseas fans ‘are BANNED from the Tokyo Olympics’ in a bid to ease Japanese fears about new Covid variants entering the country while they lag behind on vaccines… but the Games are still going ahead Japan’s government will ban overseas fans from attending the Olympic Games A local news agency claim public fears over Covid-19 … Read more
The NHS’s 111 Covid-19 Symptom Checker fails to pick up symptoms of severe Covid-19, as well as bacterial pneumonia and sepsis, a new report reveals. Researchers tested symptom checkers from four countries – the UK, the US, Japan and Singapore – by simulating all three conditions, which can be life-threatening. They found the UK’s was … Read more
Self-decapitating sea slugs can sever their own HEADS and then regenerate a whole new body – and scientists have no idea how or why Scientists saw the behaviour in two species of sacoglossan sea slug The detached head regrows another body, but the body does not regrow a head Young sea slugs start wriggling and eating … Read more
Biden ‘will host Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House as soon as April’ in the new administration’s first in-person visit from a foreign leader President Biden will reportedly host Suga at the White House as soon as April It would be the first visit from a foreign leader of his presidency The … Read more
An eternal flame!: The world’s oldest person, 118, is aiming to carry the Olympic torch for the Tokyo Games Kane Tanaka, 118, plans to carry the Olympic torch 100 metres in Japan this May The supercentenarian has survived two battles with cancer and two pandemics Her grandson said only her health or weather conditions would … Read more
People with higher incomes are ‘prouder, more confident and less afraid’, according to ‘the most comprehensive analysis to date’. Researchers in the US and Singapore analysed income data and questionnaire results of 1.6 million people in 162 countries, including the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France and Japan. Higher income predicted whether people felt … Read more
Houses ripped up from their foundations, boats washed miles inland, streets buried in rubble and smoke rising from electrical fires – these were the other-worldly scenes beamed around the world almost 10 years ago after Japan was hit by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. It was 2.46pm local time on March 11, 2011, … Read more
The materials essential for life on Earth including organic matter and water have been discovered on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, study shows. Planetary scientists from Royal Holloway University of London examined a single grain of dust returned to Earth from asteroid Itokawa by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part … Read more