The Tokyo District Court ruled Monday that the metropolitan government’s decision to order the Global-Dining Inc. restaurant chain to reduce its business hours last year due to the coronavirus pandemic was “illegal,” in the first such ruling on COVID-19 measures imposed by the central and local governments. Presiding Judge Norihiro Matsuda said that the order
PICTURE GALLERY (CLICK TO ENLARGE). The opposition Democratic Party for the People and Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First), a regional party in Tokyo, exchanged a memorandum Friday on backing each others prospects for this summer seasons Upper House election.The DPFP and Tomin First, for which Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike serves as special consultant, objective
IMAGE GALLERY (CLICK TO ENLARGE). Japan stays careful about declaring a COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and somewhere else– regardless of a rise in cases of the omicron variation and calls for harder steps– over concerns such a move might have a possibly big social and economic impact.” At least at this moment, the
