Japan's Mideast evacuations of citizens one of its largest such operations

Japan's evacuations of its citizens and their family members from the war-hit Middle East has become one of the country's largest operations of its kind, exceeding the 2020 evacuation from China's Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak was first detected.Since the United States and Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Iran on Feb. 28, a total of 836 people have returned to Japan on four government-chartered flights, compared with the 828 who evacuated Wuhan.The number of evacuees has ballooned partly because many college students in Japan travel abroad around this time of year to cel…READ FULL ARTICLE