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SDF nurses arrive at Hokkaido hospital

ASAHIKAWA, Japan, Dec. 9 Kyodo - Nurses from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces arrive at Yoshida Hospital in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Dec. 9, 2020, due to a shortage of health care workers following a series of cluster coronavirus infections in the northern Japan city.

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Father of Olympic wrestling champion Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2012 shows Japan's Saori Yoshida (bottom) celebrating with her father and coach Eikatsu on her shoulders after winning her third consecutive gold medal in the women's wrestling 55-kilogram class at the London Olympics. Eikatsu Yoshida, 61, was found collapsed in his car in Tsu, Mie Prefecture and later confirmed dead at a hospital on March 11, 2014.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, giving a speech as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Telemedical care helps patients in remote area

MIHORO, Japan - A male patient (R) at the Mihoro National Insurance Hospital in the town of Mihoro, Hokkaido, is diagnosed by Akitoshi Yoshida, a doctor at Asahikawa Medical College in the city of Asahikawa, seen on a TV screen (background) on March 30. (Kyodo)

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Hospital cluster in Hokkaido

Photo taken Dec. 9, 2020, shows Yoshida Hospital in the city of Asahikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where 195 people have been infected with the novel coronavirus. Nurses from the Ground Self-Defense Force have been sent to Asahikawa as the city faces a shortage of health care workers due to a recent spike in coronavirus infections.

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SDF nurses arrive at Hokkaido hospital

Nurses from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces arrive at Yoshida Hospital in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Dec. 9, 2020, due to a shortage of health care workers following a series of cluster coronavirus infections in the northern Japan city.

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Hospital cluster in Hokkaido

Photo taken Dec. 7, 2020, shows Yoshida Hospital, where a total of 195 people have been infected with the novel coronavirus, in the Hokkaido city of Asahikawa, northern Japan.