COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 667 new cases

A total of 667 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Tokyo on Sunday, up by 118 week-on-week. Three people with COVID-19 were confirmed dead in the capital the same day, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ... ( read original story ...)

Japan remains free from the tyranny of tipping

The project, hatched from the gnarled nest of mid-pandemic bad ideas, was that it might somehow be good for Japan to start tipping — a pernicious psychosis that the East Asian country has watched ... ( read original story ...)