Kishida told parliament that he will lead efforts to speed up the booster shot rollout, including by making it clear that mixing-and-matching vaccinations is effective.
Last year, fans were shut out during spring training because of COVID-19 precautions, but this year teams are allowing fans to return under new safety ...
For Hanyu, success at the Beijing Games will be about achieving the unprecedented and becoming the first to successfully land the sport's most difficult jump.
There are concerns that community-acquired infections of the new variant, which is believed to be more infectious than the original omicron strain, may have started.
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also shared their "grave concern" over Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine.
