The auto and telecommunications giants said they will mutually invest around ¥200 billion ($1.8 billion) by purchasing each other’s treasury stocks.

An additional 17 individuals were confirmed on Tuesday to have tested positive, the largest number of cases the city has seen in a single day.

Foreign travelers who have been to any of the 19 countries within 14 days of arriving in Japan will be turned away.

The guidelines also request that students and staff avoid conversing with others at close quarters, check their body temperature frequently and wear face masks.

ICU beds and ventilators shouldn't be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Health-care workers should get priority. Patients with a better chance of recovery should get access to limited life-saving equipment, over those who are more sick. These and other guidelines were released Monday by ...

The government will encourage its eligible male personnel to use child-rearing leave for at least a month in principle, starting in fiscal 2020. Although the number of government employees taking paternity leave has been increasing, the period booked is shorter than a month in most ...

An unusual public spat between two top Chinese diplomats points to an internal split in Beijing over how to handle rising tensions with a combative U.S. president. The differences spilled into public view Monday after China's ambassador to the U.S. reaffirmed his opposition to promoting ...

The number of novel coronavirus patients in Wuhan, the epicenter of China's virus outbreak, was manipulated in time for President Xi Jinping's earlier this month, a local doctor has told Kyodo News. A number of symptomatic patients were abruptly released from quarantine early while a ...

Driving lessons for license holders who rarely drive have been seeing greater demand amid the COVID-19 epidemic as people seek to avoid using public transportation to get to work. Paper Driver School Kitakanto in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, has received many applications from people who were ...

At least 443 port calls by cruise ships at major ports from February to December have been canceled, with many ship operators halting services amid fears over COVID-19, a Kyodo News tally showed Monday. The cancellations at Japan's 10 largest ports for cruise ships could ...

The coronavirus pandemic could plunge Japan into deep economic stagnation, the country's central bankers warned at last week's emergency monetary policy meeting, with one seeing room for more stimulus, a summary of their discussion showed Wednesday. The Bank of Japan expanded monetary stimulus in an ...

The number of fatalities linked to the coronavirus in Japan rose to 52 on Monday following the deaths of three elderly people, including a man in his 80s in Aichi Prefecture. The man, who returned from New York on March 11, died at a hospital ...

Despite Japan's ability to keep COVID-19's spread in check, few countries have looked to the Abe administration as an example to follow.

Both national and international approaches have to be pursued with balance, vision and wisdom if the COVID-19 pandemic is to be comprehensively defeated.

We have to make choices about what to take, leave and ask others to get for us.

An expert committee that advises the “Mount Fuji World Cultural Heritage Council” working group comprised of prefectures such as Yamanashi and Shizuoka, had confirmed a discussion as of (Feb.) 18th for an entrance fee for Mount Fuji.

Mari-chan wa Nana no obasan ni ataru. (Mari is Nana’s aunt.) ...

It’s a bad time to run out of toilet paper and tissues. March is a month of big life changes in Japan such as 入学 (nyūgaku, entering university), 入社 (nyūsha, entering a company) and 転勤 (tenkin, company transfers), and those will often require your ...

In a stunning but foreshadowed move, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced late Tuesday night that Japan had reached an agreement with International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to be postponed until next summer at the latest as ...