MUFG Bank, the banking unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., plans to slash its domestic workforce by around 8,000 employees by March 2024, expanding on its earlier planned reduction of 6,000, a source said Sunday. The bank will implement the increased labor force reduction, ...

Data showed that foot traffic Sunday afternoon in major urban areas across all 47 prefectures was 50 to 80 percent lower compared with figures from those areas in January and February.

Tokyo confirmed 72 new COVID-19 infections Sunday, the first time in 13 days that the number of cases fell into double digits, the metropolitan government reported. The figure was the lowest since April 1, according to data posted to the government's website. The total number of ...

Three-quarters of the public feels positive about Emperor Naruhito, who ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1 last year, a survey shows. In the mail-in survey by Kyodo News that covered around 3,000 people 18 and older, 58 percent said they felt an affinity for ...

Most of Japan's 47 prefectures are likely to run short of intensive care beds for coronavirus patients under a peak scenario drawn up by the government, a study has found.

The students are considering leaving school as the coronavirus outbreak has left many of them without a source of income or financial support, a recent survey has found.

Governments, charities and Big Pharma firms are making huge bets with extraordinarily low odds of success.

For all their faults, Japan's neighborhood associations also help build community solidarity — a resource that will be sorely needed in the months to come.

The long-standing administrative custom requiring official documents be stamped with personal seals has been a major bottleneck in containing the spread of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely prompt Japan to fully embrace the digital shift.

The crisis has highlighted the need for more global cooperation, but let’s not get carried away.

Any plan for reopening in the U.S. is going to have to resolve some sticky liability issues.

Tokyo has its own Tintin! He may be older than Herge’s beloved character, and his cheeks ruddier, but Fabrice Tilot shares the same spirit of adventure and zest for life as his fellow Belgian.

Entertaining the kids while staying home is becoming easier for families across Japan as services normally confined to Tokyo begin putting themselves online.

One exercise app can provide a lot of health tips, and when you're done with your phone, check out a device that can sterilize it with ultraviolet light.

Roy Tomizawa interviewed over 70 athletes from 16 nations in his quest to chronicle Japan's recovery through the lens of the first Tokyo Games.

Arsenal will reopen its London Colney training ground to their players next week for individual training but the Premier League club will continue to observe social distancing rules amid the coronavirus outbreak, it said on Saturday. Soccer in England was suspended indefinitely last month due ...

Wallabies flyhalf Matt Toomua has joined calls for a rethink of the Super Rugby competition once the sport restarts after the coronavirus shutdown. The Melbourne Rebels back believes the competition, which features 15 teams across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Japan, needs to ...