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Local governments are using the internet to teach residents ways to make their own face masks and disinfectants as stores sell out of such items amid the new coronavirus outbreak. The moves are aimed at allaying concerns among locals over the COVID-19 virus. Many local ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s surprise school-closure request came as the number of confirmed COVID-19 virus patients surged, exceeding 200 across Japan as of Thursday
Twenty-four of the country’s 47 prefectures have not yet increased the number of hospital beds for patients suffering from coronavirus as requested by the central government, a Kyodo News survey showed.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health and the government-affiliated research institute Riken said Thursday that they have developed a technology that can detect the COVID-19 coronavirus in only 10 to 30 minutes. Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa told a news conference the same day that ...
Japan Tobacco Inc. said Thursday it has started to allow its domestic employees to work at home, in principle, to prevent them from being infected with the new coronavirus. They include contract and other nonregular workers, said the firm, which employs 8,700 nationwide. The measure ...
The comment by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi comes amid strong opposition from local fishermen and neighboring South Korea to the plan to the release the radioactive water.
Sports wheelchairs developed by a former Paralympian are drawing attention ahead of the Tokyo Games. "I want to disseminate Japanese technology throughout the world," says Yasuhiro Jinbo, a 49-year-old former member of the men's wheelchair basketball team. "I hope that wheelchair sports will become more ...
Dozens of students packed onto a boat docked in a flood-prone area of Bangladesh listen closely to a lesson highlighting the natural life of the rivers around them. It is a normal day on a school boat project that aims to keep students in classes ...
A member of its BOJ’s Policy Board has called for stronger action by the central bank as the widening fallout from the coronavirus outbreak risks tipping the economy into yet another recession.
Airlines are turning to some of the world's hardest-hitting disinfectants, capable of stopping everything from sexually transmitted diseases to the MRSA superbug, in the fight against the coronavirus. Qantas Airways Ltd., Korean Air Lines Co. and Singapore Airlines Ltd.'s Scoot unit are among carriers that ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace in Delhi on Wednesday after days of Hindu-Muslim clashes over a disputed new citizenship law sparked some of the worst sectarian violence seen in the capital in decades. At least 24 people were killed and hundreds more ...
The rapid spread of the new coronavirus has prompted the Bank of Japan to ask major banks how prepared they are for a worsening of the outbreak, people with knowledge of the matter said. Initial findings from the talks indicate that large financial institutions are ...
A court in Kumamoto on Wednesday ruled for the first time that special trials for segregated leprosy patients set up outside of standard courtrooms in the past were unconstitutional, but the court rejected a demand for damages. The Kumamoto District Court made the judgment in ...
Autonomous driving firm Pony.ai said it raised $462 million in its latest funding round, led by an investment by Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota invested around $400 million (¥44.2 billion) in the round, Pony.ai said in a statement Wednesday, marking its biggest investment in an autonomous ...
Scenario: You are congratulating yourself on having snagged a seat on a crowded, early morning Tokyo train, when out of the corner of your eye you spot a woman standing nearby who appears to be pregnant. You know you should offer her your seat, but ...
As one of the country's most high-profile politicians breaks new ground for a Cabinet minister by taking paternity leave, some lawmakers and businesses are aiming to change the way corporate Japan views time off for new dads. Although Japan leads the world in paid-leave provisions ...
Washington is warning about the prospect of a Chinese national heading up the U.N. patent agency, saying that putting Beijing in charge of global intellectual property protection would be a "terrible mistake. "We want a candidate who comes from a country with a history of ...
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong and the NATO military alliance are among those tipped for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, following nominations by politicians. Also on the list, according to the eight members of the United States Congress who nominated ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed Turkey would not take the "smallest step back" in an escalating stand-off with Damascus and Russia over the northern Syrian region of Idlib. Meanwhile, a meeting between Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is expected to take ...
The Federal Communications Commission told U.S. telephone companies to report details on their use of equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., Chinese gear-makers accused by the Trump administration of posing a risk of espionage. The action is the next step in the FCC's ...
As flames and smoke from burning bushes billowed toward them, Catalan firefighters calmly controlled the progress of a planned fire on a forested hillside — an exercise aimed at reducing the danger of blazes breaking out later in the summer heat. Prescribed forest burns like ...
The COVID-19 epidemic presents an opportunity for Japan and other countries to rebalance their bilateral relations with China.
Just-in-time networks are very efficient but extremely fragile.
"If you start to feel disoriented, you're getting it," is how one writer describes the process of losing his sight at the age of 29. And after the disorientation comes the process of rebuilding a life in a foreign country.
A major exhibition on kimono is being staged in London to show the garment's unique and evolving contribution to the global fashion industry. "Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk," which opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday, presents the kimono as more than just traditional ...
Miki Nakatani plays a high-powered fashion photographer loosely based on director Mika Ninagawa in the Netflix series "Followers."
When Tom Hall had the idea to take monthly "Drag Race" viewing parties and turn them into performance events he found an unlikely partner in Ni-chome impresario Yuta Furukawa.
Masataka Kubota plays a doomed boxer who takes on the yazuka in Takashi Miike's newest film.
A new manga plotted and designed by artificial intelligence that learned the artistic style of "Astro Boy" manga creator Osamu Tezuka was released Thursday. The manga "Paidon," released in the weekly comic magazine "Morning," was created by AI, which analyzed 65 works by Tezuka, including ...
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Thursday the body is fully committed to the Tokyo Olympics going ahead on schedule despite the threat of a further spread of the new coronavirus. Bach told Japanese media in a conference call that the IOC "is fully ...
Shohei Ono will grapple for his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men's 73-kg division, this time on home soil, after being named to Japan's judo team for this summer's Tokyo Games on Thursday. The All Japan Judo Federation selected 12 of its 14-member ...
A state of uncertainty is the current reality for sports leagues, athletes, coaches and organizers spanning the globe. The B. League, now in its fourth season, is dealing with that reality, too. Masaaki Okawa, the B. League chairman, announced on Wednesday evening that the circuit will ...
