Show must go on: Officials and organizers deny reports Tokyo Olympics will be canceled
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has insisted the delayed games will be held in July, rejecting a claim by The Times of London that the government has already decided to cancel ...
IOC plans to vaccinate every Olympic athlete to save Tokyo Games: report
The International Olympic Committee is working with the World Health Organization to get all athletes vaccinated in a bid to save the Tokyo Games, The Telegraph reported on Friday.
Fast-tracking the ...
Diet in review: Suga defensive on virus response but insistent on Olympics
Japan's prime minister took heat from one opposition lawmaker after another during three days of question-and-answer sessions.
Tokyo girl believed to be first local case of U.K. coronavirus variant
The girl, who has never been overseas, tested positive for a variant of the novel coronavirus that is spreading in Britain, according to the health ministry.
New virus variant may be somewhat deadlier, U.K. warns
Radical recombinations: Capture the moment with created kanji
Race back to anime’s halcyon days with 'Redline'
IOC's Dick Pound says fans not 'must-have' for Tokyo Olympics
Marketing and sports data apps join fight against pandemic
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LDP heavyweight Nobuteru Ishihara tests positive for COVID-19
Japan urges South Korea to 'immediately' act after 'comfort women' ruling is finalized
About 30 charged for allegedly exchanging stolen cryptocurrency
Woman infected with coronavirus dies by suicide
Pandemic raises Japan suicide rate after decade of decline
A-bomb survivors rejoice as U.N. nuclear ban treaty takes effect
Japan retains economic view in January despite virus emergency
Nissan to source more U.K. batteries as part of Brexit deal 'opportunity'
China’s disputed virus theory has shoppers shunning foreign food
Japan's December CPI down 1.0% in steepest fall in over 10 years
Shiseido in talks to sell personal-care business to CVC
China trade row has cost Australia $3 billion in lost exports
More than 150 National Guard members in Washington for inauguration test positive for COVID-19
World leaders urged to learn from pandemic in adapting to climate change
Germany moves to eradicate lingering Nazi laws
Locked up in a Melbourne hotel for a year, then a sudden taste of freedom
New China swine fever strains point to unlicensed vaccines
Google threatens to block Australians over media law
Shodai and Daieisho win to stay in two-way title race after Day 13
Runner Hitomi Niiya named track association's top athlete of 2020
Yoshinori Muto earns penalty but Eibar undone by Luis Suarez double
FIFA would ban breakaway 'Super League' players from World Cup
Top League cancels opening four rounds through Feb. 7
Jurgen Klopp says Burnley defeat a 'massive punch in the face'
Perhaps it's time to un-discover some of 2020
Dealing with a dire diagnosis in a new country
Whether it's a new year or a new lockdown, the time to act on your language-learning resolution is now
Tokyo remittance firm helped stranded Vietnamese amid pandemic
Health-conscious habits from 2020 to keep up
Pet ownership in Japan on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic
Pawprints and lion-ripped jeans: Struggling zoos and aquariums in Japan offer unique gifts for donations
A flurry of news means a ton of new Japanese vocabulary
Two women win Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards
‘Otona no Jijo’: When dinner guests stop being polite and start getting real
‘I Fell in Love Like a Flower Bouquet’: Millennial romance with a Gen X heart
Five books about Japan that are perfect for foodies
An ordinary president shoulders an extraordinary burden
Biden has promised an aggressive and activist agenda for his first ten days, with actions of both domestic and international import; his priority is attending to his nation’s ills.
The man who opened the U.N. peacekeeping door to Japan
Brian Urquhart was the quintessential international civil servant — determined and unflappable — whose vision remained fixed on the big picture.
Biden and Trump deliver vastly different messages
Joe Biden’s inauguration last week was the most heavily guarded in memory: Washington’s entire National Mall was fenced off; numerous military checkpoints were set up; and 25,000 National Guard troops were deployed to prevent the public from entering the city center. An American scholar reportedly ...
Global cooperation in the age of COVID-19
Ultimately, to exit the pandemic in a stronger position than we entered it, the direction we need to head is toward greater dialogue, coordination and collective action.
