Chiba

Visitors walk past various booths during the preview day for the annual Tokyo Game Show at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture on Sept. 26, 2024

So far, a total of 139,710,707 cases of coronavirus have been registered. According to the Worldometers website, the number of active cases is close to 18,000,000.

Rome, Italy: cemeteries packed, protests of undertakers

Japan's government is considering a new way to get people to consider life outside Tokyo: Pay them to leave, reported Quartz.