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Covid-19: Japan considers state of emergency amid rising cases
- Asia-Pacific
- January 4, 2021, 07:36
Japan does not expect to start Covid-19 vaccinations until the end of February, said Yoshihide Suga, as he warned that a state of emergency could soon(...)

‘People only notice I am foreign when I speak German in an Irish accent’
- Abroad
- August 20, 2020, 11:00
Philip Irving is originally from Greystones, Co Wicklow. He graduated from UCD as a mechanical engineer and emigrated to Japan in 1989. He has been ba(...)

Rugby World Cup: Final four set to make a splash as rain returns in force
- International
- October 25, 2019, 19:00
The weather hasn’t finished with the 2019 World Cup just yet. When it rains in Japan, it really does rain. On Friday, it never stopped in Tokyo, drenc(...)

One killed, flights cancelled as typhoon hits Tokyo
- Asia-Pacific
- September 9, 2019
A typhoon blew across the Tokyo metropolitan area on Monday morning, killing one person and causing dozens of injuries, while disrupting rush-hour tra(...)

Rosita Boland: What I’ve learned from 30 years travelling the world
- Travel
- May 25, 2019, 06:00
BITING DOGS, VENOMOUS SNAKES, new WORLDS AND LOST FRIENDS: AN EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM ELSEWHERE, THE IRISH TIMES JOURNALIST’S NEW BOOK Luck. Good(...)

Hokusai’s great wave and roguish behaviour
- Science
- March 7, 2019, 01:00
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, one of the most iconic works of Japanese art, shows a huge breaking wave with foam thrusting forward at its crest, toweri(...)

Japan knife attack suspect shows no remorse, say police
- Asia-Pacific
- July 27, 2016, 13:48
Satoshi Uematsu, who is accused of carrying out Japan’s worst mass killing in its postwar history, grinned in front of TV cameras and told police he (...)

The man blamed for Japan’s worst mass murder in decades had threatened for months to kill disabled people and said he wanted the government to legalis(...)

Space, the final frontier for architecture
- Homes & Property
- January 23, 2014, 00:00
How do you feel? Does the space you are in have an impact on that? “It’s such an enormous question,” says Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, sittin(...)