Japanese company develops “floating image” no-touch touch panels to avoid direct button contact
Response to the spread of the coronavirus as an ongoing global pandemic has seen not only a focus on social distancing, but extra caution exercised…
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Response to the spread of the coronavirus as an ongoing global pandemic has seen not only a focus on social distancing, but extra caution exercised…
The experience of shopping in Japan has definitely changed during the pandemic. Likely the same in other countries, customers almost uniformly wear masks, mostly remain…
As of February 2021, a new strain of COVID-19 is spreading throughout Japan. All over the city, we see posters calling for countermeasures to prevent…
On 7 January 2021 the Japanese government issued Tokyo’s second state of emergency since the deadly virus, COVID-19, was found to have spread to Japan….
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has urged people who are struggling with depression to “have the courage to consult someone” in response to an alarming spike…
According to the Japanese government and various news agencies , Covid-19 infections continue to spike, with national record-highs reported in December. Posters on JR trains…
To prevent spreading the Covid-19, JAL has decided to suspend the Factory Tour and move it online. Japan Airlines have come up with the “JAL…
While many of us have been adapting to a masked way of life during the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a portion of the population that’s been…
“Atypical” is typical during the days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like every country, Japan is growing accustomed to peculiar policies and awkward workarounds as commerce…
Kento Araki 荒木健太郎 (@arakencloud) is a researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute of Japan, where he studies the mechanism of cloud formations and their impact…
The changing face of face masks With the novel coronavirus pandemic, face masks have become a commonplace item in society. At first, they were purely…
A quarterly survey conducted by the Working Reward Research Institute has found that the number of overtime hours worked by Japan’s office employees increased between…
A survey of leisure time activities has found that 65% of Japanese people don’t go anywhere at the weekend. The survey, which was conducted by…
Theaters and concert halls in Japan have been reopened since June, but with new measures in place to ensure social distance. For example, as reported…
By now, we are all fed up of hearing about the upset and global catastrophe that COVID-19 has brought upon the world. The virus has…