Topic: Tokyo

Delta reducing number of nonstop Salt Lake City-to-Tokyo flightsDelta Air Lines says it's reducing the number of nonstop Salt Lake City-to-Tokyo flights, less than two months after the carrier launched them.Delta executive vice president Glen Hauenstein said Wednesday that the swine flu ...
The number of swine flu cases in Japan soared towards 300 Thursday and Canada announced a big jump in infections as the global epidemic showed no signs of letting up.Local media said 281 cases of the (A)H1N1 virus had been confirmed in ...

Swine flu hits Tokyo as cases surge past 10,000

The number of worldwide swine flu infections surged past 10,000 on Wednesday, as the epidemic gathered pace in the United States and the first case was recorded in Tokyo.The announcement in the Japanese capital that a 16-year-old high school girl had caught ...

Swine Flu Reaches Tokyo

Swine flu is expected to spread more rapidly and extensively in Japan after the virus reached Tokyo, one of the world's most populous metropolitan areas, with 35 million people. Two high school students were confirmed as the first two swine flu patients ...

Japan's swine flu epidemic spreads to Tokyo

Japan's swine flu epidemic spread to the capital Tokyo as a 16-year-old high school girl there tested positive for the virus on Wednesday with the country's confirmed cases topping 250, officials said.The girl, who lives in the western suburb of Hachioji, returned ...

Japan closes schools as swine flu spreads

Authorities in Japan stepped up measures to halt swine flu, which the World Health Organization declared was not yet a pandemic even as it claimed two more lives in Latin America.WHO chief Margaret Chan told member states at the opening of the ...
Japan swine flu cases surge to more than 100 over weekend, most are teenagersA wave of new confirmations sent the number of swine flu cases in Japan soaring to more than 120, health officials said Monday, prompting the government to order the ...

Swine flu hits China as global cases rise

China on Monday confirmed its first case of swine flu on the mainland, underlining the outbreak's global spread, as the United States reported hundreds more cases and warned of further deaths.Worldwide, the death toll passed 50 after Costa Rica reported its first ...

Japan confirms fourth case of swine flu

A student who recently returned from North America has tested positive for swine flu in Japan's fourth confirmed case of the virus, a government official said Sunday.The student was among 49 passengers who were quarantined near Tokyo's Narita International Airport following confirmation ...

Japan confirms first three swine flu cases

A Japanese teacher and two students returning from North America have tested positive for swine flu in the first confirmed cases of the virus in the island nation, the government said on Saturday.Japanese authorities quarantined the 46-year-old man and 16-year-old boys, who ...
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