With the number of COVID-19 infections continuing to grow in Japan and the nation's efforts to contain the outbreak having yet to show results, some are asking whether current testing policy is adequate to manage the pandemic. Starting Monday, laboratories and medical institutions tasked with ...

Churches and mosques are adopting new measures when conducting weekly religious ceremonies so as to prevent the spread among worshippers of the new virus that causes COVID-19. Some religious institutions have decided to close their doors and broadcast services over the internet, while others are ...

Michael Burry has vowed to stick with his long-term stock investments even as markets tumble on the coronavirus. The money manager who made his name betting against the securities that triggered the global financial crisis has been using the rout to add to holdings in ...

A reactor at a nuclear plant run by Kyushu Electric Power Co. was halted Monday after the utility was unable to complete on schedule anti-terrorism measures required by regulators — the first such suspension under stricter rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The ...

The only cluster with 50 or more cases is in Osaka Prefecture, where infections spread from events held at live music clubs.

The outbreak of the new coronavirus is expected to cut spending by foreign travelers to Japan by ¥981.3 billion ($9 billion), a private research firm said in a new report, raising its earlier estimate of a fall of ¥624.4 billion. Resona Research Institute amended its ...

The coronavirus panic is jolting stock markets, with steep drops in major indexes grabbing the public's attention. But behind the scenes, there is less understood and potentially more worrying evidence that stress is building to dangerous levels in crucial arteries of the financial system. Bankers, ...

South Korea reported 74 new coronavirus infections Monday, slightly lower than the previous day, health officials said, taking the tally of cases to 8,236, with 75 deaths. New infections have been on a declining trajectory, with the latest figures well below a Feb. 29 peak ...

The average period of paternity leave taken by new fathers is shorter than the period widely viewed as necessary to support postpartum mothers at more than half of large Japanese firms, a Kyodo News survey has shown. In a survey of 110 big companies, 64 ...

Britain will isolate older people "within weeks" and force into quarantine anyone diagnosed with coronavirus, the government said as it stepped up measures that have so far been less stringent than elsewhere in Europe. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people aged over 70 would be ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed rates back to near zero, restarted bond buying and joined with other central banks to ensure liquidity in dollar lending to help put a floor under a rapidly disintegrating global economy during the coronavirus pandemic. And in a dramatic move ...

The fight between Russia and Saudi Arabia looks like a personal struggle between the leaders of the two countries as well as a broadside at the U.S. fracking industry.

The EU member governments and commission bureaucrats will learn a hard lesson if they consider Britain easy to deal with.

Beijing may have failed in its international effort to pin the COVID-19 outbreak on the U.S., but don't underestimate its ability to control information domestically.

Without checking, do you know who has fought the most bouts in professional sumo history? Hakuho has the most wins (by some distance) but the yokozuna has stepped into the ring over 500 times fewer than former komusubi Oshio. Even if Hakuho continued fighting for another ...

Hideaki Wakui gave himself a passing grade following his start against the Yomiuri Giants on Sunday, the final scheduled day of preseason games in Japanese baseball. Wakui allowed a pair of runs over five innings in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' victory. Despite a shaky ...

Yokozuna Hakuho remains the only undefeated wrestler after capturing his ninth straight win at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, though the meet's continuation was called into question after a fever-stricken wrestler was compelled to undergo a test for the new coronavirus. Hakuho had ...

There was confusion and mixed reactions from players and coaches over the weekend as the B. League resumed its season. There was also a lot of chaos. Japan's top men's professional hoops circuit returned to the court after a multiple-week hiatus amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The ...

Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota, the world's No. 3 pairing, were crowned women's doubles champions on Sunday at the All England Open badminton tournament, one of the few sporting events that went ahead amid the coronavirus pandemic. Later Sunday, in the last of the day's ...