January 23, 2021
A U.N. treaty that calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons entered into force on Friday, though none of the nuclear powers such as the United States, China and Russia, nor countries like...
The government will consider using tax and social security identification numbers — the so-called “My Number” — to facilitate an effective rollout of vaccinations against the novel coronaviru...
In response to House of Councillors member Anri Kawai being found guilty over a large-scale vote-buying scandal, the ruling parties are calling for her resignation, trying to fend off public criticism...
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden intends to tackle the climate crisis, which he has positioned as one of his highest priorities, in a bid to rebuild an economy devastated by the coronavirus pan...
The Japanese government welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden’s call for emphasis on allies and international cooperation in the address. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expressed Thursday his intention...
Amid seemingly countless barricades and gun-toting security personnel locking down the streets of Washington, the administration of new U.S. President Joe Biden has been launched. The heavy security...
The government is “making every effort to start [COVID-19 vaccinations] as soon as possible,” Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said during a plenary session at the House of Representatives on Wednesd...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday morning praised the inaugural address given by new U.S. President Joe Biden, calling it “a very powerful speech that appealed to the people for unity.”
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COVID-19 vaccinations for the bulk of the population will begin as early as May, after the priority vaccinations for medical personnel and the elderly that are expected to start in the next couple of ...
The government will provide up to ¥25 million to businesses that either cancel or postpone events due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry announced on Tuesday. The...
The Tokyo metropolitan government is considering expanding the scope of relief money given to restaurants that cooperate with requests to shorten business hours as a countermeasure against the novel ...
The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga dropped six percentage points to 39% in January from the previous poll taken in December, a nationwide survey conducted by The Yomi...
The government plans to commercialize the mining of cobalt and other rare metals that are found on the seabed around Japan’s easternmost point of Minamitorishima island, part of the Ogasawara Island...
The government is preparing rules to encourage companies to actively disclose their decarbonization strategies and measures to combat climate change, with the aim of encouraging them to change their b...
This is the eighth installment of a series in which intellectuals share their thoughts on political issues the administration of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will tackle this year. For this installme...
The government will next fiscal year strengthen the operation of a consumer affairs body that deals with problems involving online shopping with overseas companies amid an increase in such consultatio...
The latest declaration of a state of emergency was expanded to include seven more prefectures only six days after the declaration for the Tokyo metropolitan area was issued, highlighting the change in...
The government added seven prefectures on Wednesday evening to the current state of emergency stemming from the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Aichi, Gifu, Fukuoka and Tochigi...
Leaders and intellectuals share their thoughts on political issues Japan will tackle this year in the Outlook 2021 series. This is the second installment of an interview with Yoshiro Mori, former prim...
Tokyo and the prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa have stepped up requests for dining establishments and other businesses to shorten operating hours in response to the state of emergency declar...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa early Thursday evening in response to the increase in novel coronavi...
The government is considering suspending an agreement to permit the entry of business travelers from countries including China and South Korea amid a global surge in coronavirus cases.
Currently, bu...
The number of candidates scheduled to run in the next House of Representatives election was 836 as of Dec. 31 2020, including those in the process of being approved, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun tal...
Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said the central government “will have to listen carefully to the opinions of experts” regarding the declaration of another state of emergency,...
The governors of Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa are asking the central government to declare another state of emergency amid the surge in novel coronavirus cases. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga wil...
The Tokyo metropolitan government requested that the central government declare another state of emergency in response to a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases.
On Saturday afternoon, Tokyo Gov. Y...
Five years have passed since Japan and South Korea agreed to a “final and irreversible” resolution of the comfort women issue. However, the administration of South Korean President Moon Jae-in has...
Dining with people you do not usually see could increase the risk of infection with the coronavirus by up to 1.5 times compared to dining with four or fewer of your closest colleagues, according to a ...
A bill to amend the special measures law to cope with new strains of influenza is expected to be passed in the next Diet session, with the main focus to be whether to include penalties for businesses...
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has renewed his call for the South Korean government to honor the 2015 agreement on former comfort women, speaking in an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.
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The government will establish a system to certify the safety of drones and plans to submit a bill to revise the Civil Aeronautics Law in next year’s Diet session, aiming to have the regulatory fram...
The government plans to amend an anti-discrimination law to require that private companies and stores give “reasonable consideration” to people with disabilities.
The amendment to the Law on E...
The Tokyo No. 6 Committee for Inquest of Prosecution on Thursday announced its decision that Hiromu Kurokawa, former chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, “should be indicted” in con...
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized Thursday after his state-paid first secretary was given a summary indictment regarding irregularities on political fund reports over dinners held prior to ...
The government has decided in principle to stop providing official development assistance (ODA) for the construction of new coal-fired power plants overseas. The move is aimed at contributing to de...
Prosecutors decided Thursday not to indict former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe due to insufficient evidence over alleged political funding violations related to dinners held on the eve of cherry blossom-...
Cutting carbon dioxide emissions from airplanes by half by 2050 compared to the 2005 level will be a goal, generating a ¥1 trillion economic impact within Japan, according to the government’s actio...
In the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident in China in June 1989, the Japanese government was more concerned with continuing its economic involvement with the world’s most populous country to...
A series of “politics-and-money” scandals has dealt yet another blow to the administration led by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, which has already been criticized over its inept handling of the sp...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga wants to visit the United States early next year to meet with President-elect Joe Biden, but conditions on the ground could scuttle the plan. “I would like to meet w...
Speaking at a symposium of the Yomiuri International Economic Society (YIES) in Tokyo on Tuesday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expressed a sense of crisis about the spread of the novel coronavirus, ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pushed his ideas for using decarbonization and digitalization as the engine for putting the economy on a growth trajectory in a speech at the Yomiuri International Econo...
With the year-end and New Year holiday season approaching amid the spread of the novel coronavirus, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Monday urged citizens to refrain from nonessential, nonurgent outings, i...
Former agriculture minister Takamori Yoshikawa of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party submitted a letter of resignation as a lower house member Tuesday to lower house Speaker Tadamori Oshima, who app...
The Liberal Democratic Party scaled back wording on allowing each person in a married couple to keep his or her surname in a draft of governmental policies over gender equality on Tuesday.
The ruli...
Japan will build two Aegis-equipped ships to replace the ground-based interceptor system known as Aegis Ashore and also develop a long-range cruise missile that can strike beyond the range of enemy mi...
