Commuters wearing face masks head to work in front of JR Tokyo Station on March 8, 2021, under an extended coronavirus state of emergency in the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken March 9, 2021, shows Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, the world's fastest in terms of computing speed, at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe. It went into full operation the same day, earlier than initially scheduled, in the hope of being utilized for research related to the novel coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
