Japanese officials confirmed more than 2,300 cases of coronavirus infection across the country on Thursday, a new daily record.
The daily count first crossed the 2,000 threshold on Wednesday. The rising numbers have come with record tallies in several prefectures.
Japanese officials confirmed more than 2,300 cases across the country on Thursday -- a new daily record --and the continuation of a worrying trend.
The daily count first crossed the 2,000 threshold on Wednesday. But numbers have now climbed higher -- even before all of the prefectural tallies are logged.
Over 2,000 coronavirus cases were confirmed across Japan on Wednesday, surpassing the daily record set on Saturday.
Officials in Japan reported a record 1,685 new coronavirus cases in the country on Friday. That's the highest daily tally so far, topping the previous record confirmed on Thursday.
Nine people in six prefectures died of the disease, including four deaths in Saitama.
Officials in Japan confirmed 1,634 new cases of coronavirus nationwide on Thursday. That's the highest daily tally so far in the country, surpassing the previous record of 1,605 confirmed on August 7.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says 393 new cases were confirmed in the capital on Thursday.
This year has seen a record high number of days that Chinese government ships have sailed just outside Japan's territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
The Japan Coast Guard said that as of 9:00 a.m. on Monday, four Chinese vessels were sailing in waters off Kubashima, one of the Senkakus. The area is in the contiguous zone just outside of Japan's territorial waters.
A Japanese government survey shows the country's smoking rate fell to a record low last year.
The health ministry surveyed about 5,700 people aged 20 or over last November.
The animated movie "Kimetsu no Yaiba," or "Demon Slayer," has broken box office records in Japan.
The film based on a hit manga series hit cinemas across Japan last Friday.
Sony has since updated its blog to clarify what the feature actually does, and it seems to be more about moderation and dealing with harassers and toxic gamers rather than spying on users.
According to Sony, “Voice chat recording for moderation is a feature that will be available on PS5 when it launches, and will enable users to record their voice chats on PS5 and submit them for moderation review. The pop up you’re seeing on PS4 right now is to let you know that when you participate in a chat with a PS5 user (post-launch), they may submit those recordings from their PS5 console to SIE.”
Over 1,700 motorists were stuck in traffic in Southern California on October 4, 2020, but it wasn't due to one of the region's horrendous traffic jams. They got together to form the largest parade of Subaru cars ever recorded.
Certified by Guinness as a new world record, the two-mile-long parade included 1,751 cars made by Subaru. Photos from the event show a diverse selection of models ranging from a late-model WRX STI to a 1980s GL. It doesn't look like the parade included a 360, the first car Subaru sold in America, but we spot a bright yellow Baja.
The mercury reached a dangerous 40.2 degrees Celsius in Niigata Prefecture on Thursday -- the first time anywhere in Japan that temperatures have hit the 40- degree mark in the month of September.
The record temperature for September was observed in the city of Sanjo near the Sea of Japan coast shortly before 2:00 p.m.
Weather officials in Japan say the country's sea surface temperatures in August were the highest on record.
The Meteorological Agency says the average water surface temperatures of the Pacific side of eastern and western Japan, as well as the southern islands of Okinawa and Amami, were around 30 degrees Celsius last month.
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's current tenure in office reached 2,799 days on Monday, making him the country's longest consecutive serving prime minister.
The previous record was 2,798 days set by the late Sato Eisaku.
The scorching heat currently gripping Japan has sent the temperature shooting up to 41.1 degrees Celsius in the central Japan city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
The figure, reached 10 minutes past noon on Monday, ties the country's record high, recorded in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, in July 2018.