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Dr Masashi Yanagisawa, director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine at the University of Tsukuba, said a report released by the Ministry of Health in February that recommended that the public gets more bed rest was a good start but needs to be followed up with a “comprehensive” education programme to avoid the nation becoming even more sleep-deprived.
But no consensus was reached, and Putin has taken an increasingly firm line on the issue, passing legislation making it illegal to cede any Russian territory to another country. As a result of the impasse, the two countries have never signed a peace treaty to formally end the second world war.
The upgraded ship, now capable of deploying the vertical take-off variant of the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, will be a welcome addition to the Japanese arsenal, analysts say – although the Kaga alone will not be a game changer amid rising regional tensions over maritime security.
“I do not think these numbers come as any great surprise,” said Sumie Kawakami, a lecturer at Yamanashi Gakuin University southwest of Tokyo. “North Korea has been firing a lot of missiles recently, and I find it interesting that [national broadcaster] NHK used to refer to these launches as of ‘projectiles’, but now they are simply calling them missiles.”
Deploying the system to the Asia-Pacific is likely to be part of the testing and training process, an analyst told This Week in Asia. The first prototypes of the Typhon were delivered to the US Army in November 2022.
Global media coverage of the outbreak has highlighted a spike in the number of cases of the rare but frequently deadly bacterial infection, highlighting an apparent fatality rate of 30 per cent.
Activists applauded the police action, but said authorities could have acted much sooner to crack down on the problem – and cautioned that much more needs to be done to halt the international trafficking of women.
Sea trials have begun of the first dedicated whaling mother ship to be built in Japan in 73 years, drawing polarised reactions from environmental campaigners and the public.