A Japanese government aircraft carrying 20 evacuees from Ukraine is expected to arrive in Japan around noon on Tuesday, Japan Time.
The move comes after Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa visited Poland as a special envoy of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio to make preparations for receiving Ukrainian evacuees in Japan.
Some Japanese municipalities have begun providing consultation services for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country. Advice is offered on such things as housing, medical care, and other matters.
Foreign Resident Support Center in Sapporo City
Japan's foreign minister has made arrangements for 20 Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion of their country to fly to Japan from Poland.
Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa told reporters in Poland on Monday that a government-chartered plane will take them to Japan. The flight is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo before noon on Tuesday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 4,384 new cases of the coronavirus and seven deaths on Monday.
The case count is down by 160 from a week ago.
A fishing port facing Toyama Bay on the Sea of Japan coast is a flurry of activity this month with the auctioning of a shrimp variety that is a regional delicacy.
The season for broad velvet shrimp, also known as Japanese glass shrimp, opened on Friday, April 1. The transparent, pinkish shrimp is known as the "jewel of Toyama Bay." It's caught mostly in the region.
The operator of a Shinkansen bullet train line in northeastern Japan has resumed services on another section after a major earthquake hit the region.
Some sections of the Tohoku Shinkansen line connecting Tokyo and northeastern Japan were damaged and a bullet train was derailed by the magnitude 7.4 earthquake on March 16.
The Japanese government plans to step up anti-coronavirus measures targeting younger people as the number of new cases that age demographic is rising.
Health ministry officials say people in their 20s accounted for the largest number of new infections among all age groups in the week through last Tuesday. They say people aged between 10 and 29 accounted for about half of the total.
A group of researchers in Japan says people who made positive posts about coronavirus vaccines on social media tended to frequently access information provided by doctors.
Using artificial intelligence to analyze Twitter, the group studied shifts in views among people who posted above a certain number of tweets about the vaccines. The information was compiled by IT firm NTT DATA.
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has condemned the killings of those who are believed to be civilians near Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
Kishida spoke to reporters on Monday following reports on the discovery of the bodies in the town of Bucha.
Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa is scheduled to meet Polish government leaders on Monday to discuss Ukraine. He is expected to fly back to Japan with some evacuees from Ukraine.
Hayashi is visiting Poland as a special envoy of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. He will meet Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on Monday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 7,899 new cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths on Sunday.
The figure increased by more than 50 from a week ago.
A former Japanese abductee has urged the government to present concrete proposals on what it would do if North Korea agrees to return the remaining abduction victims.
Hasuike Kaoru spoke to NHK in late March. He was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978 and repatriated in October 2002 with four other abductees.
A former elementary school preserved as a memorial site of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan has opened to the public.
The tsunami submerged the first floor of Kadonowaki Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture.
Japan's Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa has visited a facility in Poland that houses people who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Hayashi is in Poland as Prime Minister Kishida Fumio's special envoy to prepare for accepting Ukrainian evacuees.