News of his incapacitation or death would have serious implications for Tokyo as Japan and the world continue to grapple with the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

Japan will decide during its Golden Week holiday between April 29 and May 6 whether to extend its monthlong state of emergency to fight a widening coronavirus outbreak, government and ruling party sources said Tuesday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the state of emergency, which ...

A crew member aboard an Italian cruise ship currently undergoing repairs in southwestern Japan has tested positive for the new coronavirus, while about 20 others are believed to have developed a fever since last week, another member of the crew said Tuesday. The Philippine crew ...

Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that Abe had not agreed to any additional costs.

Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, was forecast to be hit by the largest tsunami of 29.7 meters, followed by the Hokkaido town of Erimo at 27.9 meters.

A survey also showed they worry about whether they or their partner will be able to receive important medical information hospitals provide to family members.

Even at the university level, where most students and faculty should have a degree of competency when it comes to digital tools, institutions fall short.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed 123 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, marking the first rise in four days. That compared with 102 new cases on Monday and the highest single-day cases of 201 last Friday, according to the metropolitan government data. The new cases ...

A hostage situation in the city of Fukuoka ended Tuesday afternoon when police took a man into custody at an eel restaurant, after two young girls were held hostage there, authorities said. The 3-year-old and 6-year-old girls had been held hostage since around 8:30 a.m. ...

Yoshio Tateishi, former president and CEO of Omron Corp., died early Tuesday of pneumonia caused by COVID-19 at a hospital in Kyoto, the electrical appliance maker said. He was 80. Tateishi, the company's honorary adviser and honorary chairman of the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and ...

Exponential growth would eventually lead to staff shortages and problems providing medical care.

A northwestern Chinese province on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus reported on Tuesday its first cases in nearly three weeks, all involving travelers from overseas, as imported infections in the rest of China started to ease. Shaanxi province reported 21 new infections from ...

The Uber Eats food delivery service in March saw a 20 percent increase in the number of restaurant contracts in Japan from a month earlier, its operator said Tuesday, as the government urges people to stay at home to contain the coronavirus spread. As of ...

Airlines are doing everything they can to scrap or delay jetliner deliveries amid an unprecedented collapse in air travel. Not Air Baltic Corp. The East European carrier has started talks with Airbus SE to accelerate handovers of its A220 model, Chief Executive Officer Martin Gauss ...

Following its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japan resumed commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years in July 2019. Whale meat supply, however, has fallen by more than 30 percent from levels prior to the withdrawal. The government has curbed the ...

The IOC says Japan will pay, but the top government spokesman says no such deal has been made.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to controversial Yasukuni Shrine as its spring festival began Tuesday under the nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. The masakaki tree offering to mark the start of the two-day festival was made under the prime ...

With supplies of face masks dwindling due to the spread of the coronavirus, many people in Japan have started making their own, boosting sales of sewing machines. Japanese mothers usually buy sewing machines at the end of March to sew fabric bags for their children ...

President Moon Jae-in may have delivered a crippling blow to South Korea’s opposition, but he also turned a prime minister who once served him into a potential rival within a more powerful ruling party. Lee Nak-yon, 67, not only led Moon’s Democratic Party of Korea ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had rejected a sum offered by South Korea in response to his demand that Seoul pay for a larger share of the cost of U.S. military forces deployed there. "Now they've offered us a certain amount of ...

The following are questions and answers regarding the government's plan to give ¥100,000 ($930) to everyone in Japan amid the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Why is the government doing this? Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the handout is meant to ...

Policymakers must tread a fine line between saving lives and saving livelihoods.

Once the hazard of coronavirus is gone, the inequities of daily will return with a vengeance.

Many of us learn kanji by associating them with the pictographs on which they were originally based. What happens when scholars dispute those commonly held associations?

A grammar lesson goes over each and every aspect of the particle "zutsu," which is used to indicate both quantity and degree.

A Kyodo news article looks at a rash of scams that are targeting those worried about the outbreak of COVID-19.

A Japan Times story looks at the YouTube interview social media personality Hikakin did with Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike.

"Terrace House" is shutting its doors, for now. The big news this week was that, according to the show's official Twitter account, production would be shut down due to the current outbreak of COVID-19. That means this week's episode is the last new one ...

The former Barcelona captain's thoughts have been with his Spanish homeland as he and his Vissel Kobe teammates wait for the J. League season to resume.

Tennis great Billie Jean King says the financial fallout from the coronavirus shutdown has exposed the unfairness of the sport and that it is important for the top players to lead the cause for change. The tennis season was suspended in March due to the ...

Belgian second-tier club Lokeren face going out of business after its owner on Monday said that the club had failed to meet a deadline to find an investor to ward off bankruptcy. "Despite all our efforts, we have not been able to attract the necessary ...

Nevada esports gamblers will have one more option in the fall, as the state's Gaming Control Board on Monday approved wagering on ESL One: Rio, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major tournament. The $2 million event in Rio de Janeiro originally was scheduled for May 11-24, ...