June 16, 2021
The government plans to end the novel coronavirus state of emergency as scheduled on Sunday in nine out of the 10 prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka, where the measures are currently in effect. ...
The Diet session closed Wednesday afternoon, with attention now turning to political parties revving up preparations for the July 4 Tokyo metropolitan assembly election and a lower house election expe...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has begun making arrangements to dissolve the House of Representatives in September, government sources said.
At the moment, Suga is prioritizing thorough measures to c...
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Joe Biden used his first appearance at a NATO summit since taking office to call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from provocative actions targeting the U....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized Monday for affronting people with recent comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocau...
The Liberal Democratic Party’s special committee on promoting women’s active participation plans to renew its proposal for the party to increase the number of female Diet lawmakers. According to ...
CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations staked their claim Sunday to leading the world out of the coronavirus pandemic and crisis, pledging more than 1 billion coro...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Sunday said he had won firm support at a G7 summit meeting in Britain for holding the Tokyo Olympics despite public concern that the spor...
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — G7 leaders will commit on Sunday to increase their climate finance contributions to meet an overdue spending pledge of $100 billion a year to help poorer countries c...
The government will consider strengthening the power of various authorities, in a bid to help them respond better to the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the draft of a basic plan for economic...
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — Group of Seven countries will provide 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses over the next year and work with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase t...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Saturday to promote their countries’ cooperation to realize the Japan-proposed f...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed their cooperation on Saturday to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific in view...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Leaders of the Group of Seven key industrialized countries, at a meeting on Saturday, called for a further investigation by the World Health Organization into the o...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and South Korean President Moon Jae-in exchanged greetings on Saturday at the venue of the Group of Seven summit in Britain, ...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — U.S. President Joe Biden threw his support on Saturday behind Japan’s plans to hold the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer as planned.
At 10-minute ...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Leaders of the Group of Seven key industrialized nations agreed Saturday to launch a massive infrastructure investment initiative for the developing world to rival ...
A bill to revise the National Referendum Law that would make it easier to vote in a referendum on constitutional revision was passed on Friday at a plenary session of the House of Councillors.
The ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday vaccinations will be completed before the end of the year in a debate between the leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and opposition parties in...
In a joint opinion poll conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun and the South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo, 88% of Japanese and 72% of South Korean respondents said the increasing military pressure China is...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps before the violent attack, including a ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has reiterated his intention to strike a balance between hosting the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“W...
The Justice Ministry has started to beef up efforts to disseminate information on the nation’s divorce system in English in response to a trend of increasing divorces among foreigners married to Ja...
The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Cabinet has dropped to a record-low 37%, according to a nationwide survey conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun between Friday and Sunday.
The a...
Deliberations within the government and ruling parties on the nation’s financial reform are at a standstill. The government’s attempts to curtail the growth of social security costs are proving di...
Foreign students and Japanese researchers who are “under the strong influence of foreign governments” will soon be required to seek permission from the trade minister to access technology, The Yom...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said that Japan will donate an additional $800 million (¥87.7 billion) and provide vaccines that domestic makers are licensed to produce to COVAX, an international f...
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Chiefs of Japan’s two ruling coalition parties confirmed at a meeting Wednesday that the ongoing regular session of the Diet, the country’s parliament, will end on June 16 wi...
The health ministry plans to strengthen its monitoring system to prevent the spread of the Indian variant of the novel coronavirus by randomly conducting tests for the variant on 40% of newly infecte...
The five prefectures with the highest COVID-19 inoculation coverage will be given priority in the distribution of vaccines for the elderly, administrative and regulatory reform minister Taro Kono sai...
Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press) — Former Japanese industry minister Isshu Sugawara of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, facing bribery allegations, submitted his resignation as a House of Representat...
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—The government is on high alert for a novel coronavirus variant identified in Vietnam, considering strengthening its border controls to prevent it from entering Japan. The COVI...
In a poll conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun ahead of the upcoming election for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, Gov. Yuriko Koike garnered high support among Tokyo residents, but opinion was divided on...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is becoming increasingly concerned in the run-up to the upcoming House of Representatives election about the vulnerability of its junior lawmakers, and senior part...
The government is considering a scheme to decarbonize public elementary and junior high school buildings through improvements in heat insulation and generating solar power as part of efforts to achie...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has been inviting Cabinet ministers separately to the Prime Minister’s Office for lunch to gather information amid the spread of the coronavirus.
While curtailing g...
A House of Representatives committee has passed a bill that will tighten oversight of the use of land deemed important from a security viewpoint, bringing the nation a step closer to regulating opaqu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Biden administration said on Friday it is drawing up a list of targeted sanctions against key members of the Belarusian government following the former Soviet republic’...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said suggestions were being considered regarding the possibility of allowing domestic spectators at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer.
“We are working on...
The government announced its decision on Friday to extend the state of emergency for nine prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka through June 20.
The decision was reached on Friday evening at a meeti...
The outline of a special bill to allow COVID-19 patients recuperating at home or in designated accommodations to vote by mail-in ballot was agreed upon Thursday by several parties, including the Libe...
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested four Liberal Democratic Party politicians as possible successors to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in an interview with the monthly Hanada magazine published...
The government intends officially to decide on Friday to extend to June 20 the coronavirus state of emergency that is in effect for nine prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka. Prime Minister Yosh...
Looking to allow Diet members to freely post deliberations and other legislative activities on social media, the Liberal Democratic Party will embark on the promotion of digital transformation, The Yo...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and leading opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan have broadly agreed that a question-and-answer session will be held during the current Diet session,...
Myanmar nationals residing in Japan who wish to extend the duration of their stay because of their country’s unstable post-coup situation will likely be allowed to do so as an emergency measure, gov...
Tokyo and three of its neighboring prefectures — Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa — jointly requested on Wednesday that the central government extend the novel coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability t...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato insisted on Tuesday that the warning issued by the U.S. on travel restrictions would not affect the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Kato told reporters that th...
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Yoichi Takahashi, a special adviser to the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, resigned on Monday after drawing a barrage of criticism over his recent controversia...
Washington (Jiji Press)—The Department of State on Monday warned U.S. citizens to avoid trips to Japan due to the severe novel coronavirus situation in the Asian country. The department raised it...
Amid growing public opposition to holding the Tokyo Games over concerns of the possible influx of coronavirus variants spreading as tens of thousands of people soon converge on Japan from around the ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato suggested Sunday that there is no change in the current plans to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer despite the persistent spr...
The delivery of novel coronavirus vaccines for the elderly to all 1,741 municipalities is expected to be completed by July 4, according to the government’s distribution plan. However, the government...
The Foreign Ministry has begun to deny gasoline tax exemptions to foreign diplomats based in Japan if they fail to pay parking fines. People who refuse to pay such fines are usually subject to seizu...
NAHA — The Okinawa prefectural government has announced new coronavirus measures, including requests for eateries to stop serving alcohol, following the central government’s decision to declare a...
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) leader Yukio Edano has called for the relocation of a U.S. base in Okinawa Prefecture to be suspended in his latest book, “Edano Vision: Sasae-au Nih...
The Japanese and Australian governments have decided to hold a virtual 2-plus-2 meeting between their foreign and defense ministers as early as the end of the month, according to government sources. ...
The government intends to strengthen regulations on foreign students and researchers at Japanese universities and other institutions concerning the transfer of advanced technology that can be used for...
As some countries overseas are making proof of vaccination a visitor entry qualification, sources said the government has decided to issue such documentation. Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato ...
