April 12, 2020
According to an estimate on how long it will take to stop the spread of infections with the novel coronavirus, an 80% reduction in person-to-person contact would halt the spread in about a month, while 65% reduction would take more than 70 days to do so. The estimate compiled by Prof. Hiroshi Nish...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea called for tougher and more thorough countermeasures to keep citizens safe from the fast-spreading coronavirus at a meeting where leader Kim Jong Un presided, state media said on Sunday. North Korea continues testing for the virus, with more than 500 people in quara...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed relevant ministries and agencies to ask all businesses in seven prefectures where a state of emergency has been declared, including Tokyo, to take measures to reduce the number of people working in offices by at least 70%. Abe issued the instruction at a meeting ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy’s for the highest in the world Saturday, surpassing 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a pote...
A Bank of Japan report on regional economies casts a harsh light on a situation where the spread of novel coronavirus infections is affecting various parts of the country. According to the central b...
The operator for Haneda Airport has temporarily closed the new international facilities in Terminal 2 on Saturday, which opened at the end of March. International flights will be concentrated at Term...
ROME (AFP-Jiji) — The global coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 as Easter weekend celebrations around the world kicked off in near-empty churches with billions of people stuck indoors to halt th...
A monthly gazette filled with submissions from mothers detailing their everyday parenting routines has been made available to families with small children through the use of the internal mail system ...
The number of Twitter posts containing Japanese words for “exhausted” or “stressed” have been increasing because of the spread of COVID-19, according to a survey conducted by Fujio Toriumi, a...
Nearly 40% of people surveyed by researchers at Keio University in Tokyo and other institutions said they felt their mental health had deteriorated due to teleworking, which the government began to p...
Campgrounds, ryokan Japanese-style inns and other facilities in areas not covered by the state of emergency declared over the coronavirus outbreak are increasingly closing voluntarily due to an unexp...
The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry has decided to take special measures to allow schools to evaluate students for their academic performance using online materials, minis...
The area around JR Tokyo Station — the gateway to the capital — was deserted Saturday morning, on the first weekend after a state of emergency was declared following the widespread outbreak of the...
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday at the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs that about 3,300 Japanese nationals in more than 60 countries are unable to return to Japan...
As the number of people infected with the new coronavirus has been increasing rapidly, mainly in Tokyo, the question of whether or not proper medical care can continue to be provided has emerged as a ...
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) and Tokyo Metro Co. saw a sharp increase in the number of people seeking refunds of commuter train passes on the days before and after the government’s declaration ...
“The positive rate among people coming back to Japan is too high. There’s got to be more infected people in China,” a National Security Secretariat official in charge of border containment was q...
The government plans to call on all citizens of the nation to refrain from using restaurants and other places that serve customers, such as cabarets and night clubs, as a preventive measure against th...
Plastic products account for over 65% of the man-made garbage that is washed ashore all around Japan, according to a recently released Environment Ministry survey conducted in fiscal 2018. The min...
An unprecedented request was made for a wide range of industry categories to suspend operations or curtail business hours. It is indispensable to eliminate anxiety over causing disruption by offering...
Japan and the United States should deepen their security cooperation to maintain deterrence even in the current pandemic crisis. Cases of infection with the new coronavirus have been found on sever...
The Chinese government has lodged a protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s expression of gratitude to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-en for posting a message of support to Japan on Twitter amid the ...
In the wake of the declaration of a state of emergency, the Tokyo metropolitan government has announced a series of plans, such as giving a list of businesses requested to shutdown as well to offer a ...
Faced with a rapid surge in the number of people infected with the new coronavirus, the political ability of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being tested ever more severely. The following report takes a...
The Chinese government has lodged a protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s expression of gratitude to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-en for posting a message of support to Japan on Twitter amid the ...
Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura held a teleconference Wednesday morning with the governors of seven prefectures for which a state of emergency has been declared, discussing how to...
The number of Twitter posts containing Japanese words for “exhausted” or “stressed” have been increasing because of the spread of COVID-19, according to a survey conducted by Fujio Toriumi, a...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The cumulative number of new coronavirus infection cases confirmed in Japan has exceeded 5,000, excluding those who were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quar...
Nisshinbo Holdings Inc., a Japanese textile company, has begun selling masks made from shirt fabric through the Brick House brand of shops operated by its affiliated firm. The company announced on Thu...
“The positive rate among people coming back to Japan is too high. There’s got to be more infected people in China,” a National Security Secretariat official in charge of border containment was q...
The area around JR Tokyo Station — the gateway to the capital — was deserted Saturday morning, on the first weekend after a state of emergency was declared following the widespread outbreak of the...
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday at the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs that about 3,300 Japanese nationals in more than 60 countries are unable to return to Japan...
The operator for Haneda Airport has temporarily closed the new international facilities in Terminal 2 on Saturday, which opened at the end of March. International flights will be concentrated at Term...
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. 
Ceramics produced in Kyoto are generally referred to as Kyo-yaki or Kyo ware. Originated in the latter half of the 16th century, Kyo ware has continued to be produced in the present day. An ancient ca...
SHIZUOKA CITY — This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of “Mobile Suit Gundam” plastic models, which first hit the shelves in 1980. Manufactured at the Bandai Hobby Center plant in ...
The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (YNSO)’s 2020-2021 season will be led by Sebastian Weigle, his second season at the helm as the orchestra’s principal conductor. This season will have 46 co...
