Updated: Quake in Japan kills two, halts factories, cuts power to thousands of homes
Last updated: 12.30pm, 18th March, 2022 (AEDT)Tokyo, JapanReuters A powerful earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast left thousands of homes without water and power on Thursday and forced factories to suspend operations, adding to supply chain woes for makers of smartphones, electronics and automobiles worldwide. The magnitude 7.4 tremblor struck just before midnight on Wednesday east of […]
Tokyo trains crowded but little other damage day after strong quake
Tokyo, JapanReuters Tokyo area commuters faced packed trains on Friday on some lines due to delays, but there was little other impact after a strong quake rocked the Japanese capital late the night before, although authorities warned of aftershocks for up to a week. The quake struck at 10:41pm, centred just east of Tokyo and […]
Rooftops to railways: neighbourhoods race to hit net zero climate goals
Durban, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Tackling climate change at a city level – let alone on a global scale – is time-consuming, but neighbourhoods are being targeted as testing grounds for speedy, community-led climate solutions. Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November, engineering company Arup and the C40 Cities network have launched […]
Superstar Osaka lights flame as Japan’s COVID-hit Olympic Games open
Tokyo, JapanReuters Japan’s global superstar Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity. Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus, the Games are being held without […]
Christians called to pray for the “spiritual transformation” of Japan during upcoming Olympics
Christians across the world are being called to pray for the “spiritual transformation” of Japan in a “million hours of prayer” during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games. The push for prayer comes ahead of the games which are scheduled to start on 23rd July and run through until 8th August, originally scheduled to take […]
Host city Tokyo bans Olympic spectators amid COVID-19 emergency
Tokyo, JapanReuters The Olympics will take place without spectators in host city Tokyo, organisers said on Thursday, as a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the Games. The move marked a sharp turnabout from as recently as last week, when some officials were still […]
Organisers to ban Olympic spectators as Tokyo declares coronavirus emergency – report
Tokyo, JapanReuters Olympic organisers are set to ban all spectators from the Games, the Asahi daily said on Thursday, as Japan prepared to declare a state of emergency for Tokyo that will run through its hosting of the event to curb a new wave of coronavirus infections. Organisers were set to formally reach the decision […]
Lifestory: The story of one Tokyo man evicted twice, 50 years apart, for Olympic construction
ELAINE LIES, of Reuters, reports from Tokyo on the story of Kohei Jinno…
Organisers show off Olympic village a month before Games begin
Tokyo, JapanReuters Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics opened the athletes’ village to the media on Sunday, showing off apartments and a timber-laced shopping plaza where 11,000 athletes would stay and mingle during the sporting extravaganza. The once-delayed Games are due to start on 23rd July amid concern that the influx of thousands of people from […]
No-one’s safe anymore: Japan’s Osaka city crumples under COVID-19 onslaught
Osaka, JapanReuters Hospitals in Japan’s second largest city of Osaka are buckling under a huge wave of new coronavirus infections, running out of beds and ventilators as exhausted doctors warn of a “system collapse”, and advise against holding the Olympics this summer. Japan’s western region home to nine million people is suffering the brunt of […]