March 29, 2020
On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee and Japanese officials reached the unprecedented decision to postpone 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. John Coates, a key IOC member who chairs the Tokyo 2020 Coordination Commission, talked on the following day to The Yomiuri Shimbun on the phone about the r...
Saitama Gov. Motohiro Ono urged people to refrain from unnecessary travel to Tokyo from Monday, including entertainment districts, due to widespread infections with the new strain of coronavirus. There was no order to refrain from commuting to and from work, but Ono asked that people explore the ...
Due to a cold front much like one experienced in midwinter, snow accumulated along the mountains in the Kanto-Koshin region, and snowfall was also observed in central Tokyo Sunday and is expected to continue throughout the Kanto region until the evening. According to the Japan Meteorological Agenc...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — New flight routes over the center of Tokyo opened on Sunday, allowing a sharp increase in international flights to and from Tokyo International Airport at Haneda. The new rou...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Every person arriving in South Korea from overseas will soon be required to undergo two weeks of quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the country’s prime min...
The government missed the end-of-February deadline for submitting to the United Nations a plan with revised targets for greenhouse gas emission cuts based on the Paris Agreement, an international fram...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday the government will begin clinical trials to formally approve the anti-influenza drug Avigan as a treatment for the new coronavirus. Abe pledged at a press co...
Numerous cases have emerged in Japan and overseas of people who test negative for the new coronavirus but then later registered a positive result. Experts have denied that people can be re-infected,...
The Defense Ministry issued an order on Saturday to dispatch Self-Defense Forces personnel to airports in an effort to boost border measures against the spread of the new coronavirus. The voluntary d...
Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens is holding an online poll until noon Tuesday to decide the name of the first giraffe born in the zoo in 37 years. The female giraffe was born on Feb. 2, the child o...
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is considering July of next year for the start of competition, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The committee recently compiled a ...
Before it is too late, it is important to establish a medical system to save the lives of patients in severe condition, based on the presumption of a widespread outbreak of infections with the coronav...
At a press conference Saturday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he believed the new coronavirus pandemic was approaching a stage that will require a declaration of a state of emergency. With Tokyo Go...
The Olympic flame will be displayed for one month at the J-Village national soccer training center in Fukushima Prefecture where the torch relay was scheduled to start, according to the Tokyo Olympic ...
Miso soup has been a crucial part of the Japanese dietary concept that a meal should consist of a soup and three other dishes. Some people now avoid it because of fears that too much salt is bad for t...
Once known as an industrial area, the borough of Brooklyn in New York City is now home to many artists and designers, its streets lined with fashionable shops. The Kuramae district in Tokyo’s Tait...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea fired at least one unidentified projectile into the ocean off its east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday, with Japan's Ministry of Defense repor...
A roughly two-meter-tall figure of Evangelion Unit 01 from the hit anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion is captivating visitors in the lobby of Shimanto town hall in Kochi Prefecture. The figure was c...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, the poster girl of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, took to social media on Saturday to show her support for the decision to postpone the Games until n...
BERLIN (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide topped 600,000 on Saturday as new cases stacked up quickly in Europe and the United States and officials dug in for a long fig...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced at a press conference Saturday that he will instruct the compilation of a fiscal 2020 extra budget that will include additional economic stimulus measures, given t...
WUHAN (Reuters) — The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday by restarting some metro services and reopening borders, al...
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) — From the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand to the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal, tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares...
GENEVA — There is a growing call online for World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to resign, citing his slow response to the outbreak of the new coronavirus and other...
The Tokyo metropolitan government held a meeting of the new coronavirus countermeasure headquarters on Friday and decided to ask people to refrain from viewing cherry blossoms at its 82 municipal park...
Major shopping districts became quiet on Saturday, after the governors of Tokyo and of prefectures including Osaka, Kanagawa and Saitama called for people to refrain from unnecessary and nonurgent out...
Commercial and entertainment facilities in the Tokyo metropolitan area have announced plans to curtail operations this weekend in response to a request from the Tokyo metropolitan government and other...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the compilation of a basic policy for combating the new coronavirus Thursday, which is expected to stipulate that residents could be requested to stay inside for thr...
At a press conference Saturday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he believed the new coronavirus pandemic was approaching a stage that will require a declaration of a state of emergency. With Tokyo Go...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced at a press conference Saturday that he will instruct the compilation of a fiscal 2020 extra budget that will include additional economic stimulus measures, given t...
The government has decided to provide subsidies totaling about ¥200 billion for companies that plan to move production bases from China to Japan and Southeast Asian countries as part of efforts to en...
The number of people newly infected with the new coronavirus has been decreasing dramatically in China. The Chinese Communist Party-controlled government shows off what it claims are the successful re...
The Japan News has partnered with media startup inkl, a news service that curates articles from the world’s leading publishers for users to read on mobile devices. A selection of articles from The Japan News and The Yomiuri Shimbun is now available to read on inkl, which hosts titles from about 20 countries. 
Restoration work on richly colored murals in a tomb that dates back some 13 centuries has finally been completed after more than a decade, the Cultural Affairs Agency announced Thursday. The agency r...
OSAKA — It has been five years since the death of rakugo storytelling master Katsura Beicho, the first recipient of the Order of Culture from the rakugo world, and researchers continue to compile a ...
KYOTO — In Japan, there are things that Japanese people believe only the Japanese can understand. One of these is the value of tea bowls. There is an expression indicating the best three tea bowls...
