Japan: News
United Airlines First U.S. Carrier to Offer Non-Stop Service to Manila, Will Add New Flights to Auckland, Beijing, Brisbane, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai
United Airlines said on Friday that it had made multiple additions to its winter schedule.
The Chicago-based carrier will become the first U.S. airline to offer non-stop service to Manila from the continental United States. It will also become the only U.S. airline to offer non-stop service to Christchurch, New Zealand. United has been the only U.S. airline operating non-stop service to Hong Kong and it added a third flight to …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Oct. 25: Xocova – Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, Cruise Line Held Liable in Covid Outbreak
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,323rd day of the pandemic.
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Long Covid Research Comes Out of the Shadows, Opens the Door to Improved Diagnostic Tools and Potential Therapies
The term “Long Covid” has been been in the news over the past month than in prior months as researchers published studies that suggest reasonably definitive diagnosis …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Aug. 6: Few States in U.S. Track Reinfections, Is the U.K. In the Dark About an Autumn Wave?
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,243rd day of the pandemic and also the 78th anniversary of the U.S. aerial bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb. The attack on Hiroshima, which was intended to bring about an end to the Second World War, was followed three days later with a similar attack on Nagasaki.
In other …
Japan Airlines Will Rent Travelers Clothes So They Don’t Have to Pack and Can Help Lower Carbon Emissions, Too
Japan Airlines has come up with an innovative idea to lower its carbon footprint and make it easier for passengers traveling to Japan pack for their journeys.
“Travel to Japan without baggage,” the program’s website proclaims. “Clothing sharing service for travelers that eliminates the need to pack, drag or laundry [sic] and reduce your carbon footprint,” it states.
The Tokyo-based carrier is largely eliminating the need for travelers to pack their bags …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – June 6: ‘Ghost Students’ Apply for and Steal Financial Aid, D-Day Was 79 Years Ago Today, and Today’s Statistics
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,182nd day of the pandemic and the 79th anniversary of D-Day.
D-Day, the invasion by the Allies – primarily the U.S., Great Britain and Canada – of German-held western Europe took place on June 6, 1944. Code-named Operation Overlord, the plan had been in the works for years but advanced in …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – June 5: In Japan, Most Continue to Don Masks; Global Aviation Has Recovered 90% Says IATA
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,181st day of the pandemic.
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The Pandemic Isn’t Giving Up On Us That Easily
The public health emergency has been declared over and many people are ready to put the coronavirus pandemic in the rear-view mirror, but the pandemic isn’t giving up that easily.
In the first five months of the …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – May 17: Drug Shortages Are a ‘Public Health Emergency,’ ‘No Smoking Gun’ to Support Wuhan Lab Leak Theory in New Report
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,162nd day of the pandemic as well as the 18th anniversary of the day on which the World Health Organization declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1990. As a result, the date of May 17 was chosen as the International Day Against Homophobia, now referred to as the International …
