The new approach will continue to reference case numbers but will shift the emphasis to the city’s health care system.

Aso made the remark to a senior lawmaker from Liberal Democratic Party coalition partner Komeito, according to a source.

The team will discuss alternatives to the Aegis Ashore plan, including enemy base strike capability, and draw up a proposal by the end of July.

The MSDF vessel was the first Japanese destroyer to conduct the research mission in the region to ensure sea lane safety.

The measure is designed to protect the environment, but plastic shopping bags account for only around 2 percent of all plastic waste produced in the country.

The program, allowing tax-deductible donations to hometowns or other municipalities, aims to ease tax revenue disparities between urban and rural areas.

Alphabet Inc's Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers and slash some of its dominance in online advertising, seven people involved in the talks said this month. Publishers had expected to use data privacy measures going ...

The test at Osaka City University Hospital will run through July 31 next year, Anges said.

Britain has imposed a stringent lockdown on the English city of Leicester following a local flare-up of the novel coronavirus just as Prime Minister Boris Johnson attempts to nudge the United Kingdom back to normality. The United Kingdom has been one of the world's worst-hit ...

Japan's system of stamping official documents has been seen as a hindrance to teleworking by some.

Bengt Yamada has been taking the stories of children with disabilities to Tokyo's embassies.

The elephant weighed 3,940 kg as of June 20, but her target weight is 3,600 kg.

Only 15 percent of senior and leadership posts are held by women, the report said.

New language in a high-profile policy review shifting focus toward renewables is expected to be largely be symbolic, said sources familiar with the matter.

The monthly fee for heavy mobile data usage in Tokyo of ¥8,175 ($76) for 20 gigabytes was the highest charged by major carriers in six of the more connected cities in the world as of March, a communications ministry report showed Tuesday. The fee in ...

Tokyo deploys harsh diplomatic language to stress that move "undermines the credibility" of the “one-country, two-systems” principle.

The survey found a stark contrast between the variety of emergency foods prepared by populous big cities and by smaller towns and villages.

The latest rate saw the steepest month-to-month fall since January 1974 when the economy entered a downturn phase in the wake of the oil crisis, the labor ministry said.

Japan’s industrial production dropped again in May even as a nationwide state of emergency was lifted, showing the severity of the pandemic’s impact on the export-reliant manufacturing sector. Factory output fell 8.4 percent from April, the economy ministry reported Tuesday. Production slid from the prior ...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Hitachi Ltd. not to sell its nuclear power project in Britain to China due to security concerns, The Sunday Times has reported. China General Nuclear Power Corp., the country's largest state-owned nuclear power company, is keen ...

The move, announced days after border tensions in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, deals a blow to the most prominent names in Chinese technology.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Steve Biegun pointed to the global COVID-19 pandemic as a "wet blanket" that would make any in-person summit difficult.

A government panel of experts on Monday approved a proposal to start handing down punishments for foreigners who ignore deportation orders as a step to resolve the issue of prolonged detentions at immigration facilities. The penalization is a key item in the recommendations approved by ...

Neon lights lit up a Shanghai stage as a whistle from the crowd pierced the air, heralding the live debut of Chinese drag queen "Miss Cream." Also known by his real name, Yan Anyu, the 18-year-old from the northern province of Hebei strutted out in ...

Average income stood at ¥24.27 million, down 8.7 percent from the previous year.

Social media site Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site's hate speech rules. Other sites also conducted high-profile sweeps: Amazon.com Inc's live-streaming platform Twitch ...

WTO rules prevent Japan from blocking a dispute inquiry if South Korea returns with a second request at the next WTO dispute-settlement meeting.

Company representatives said the units are useful in ensuring that people avoid being in confined and crowded spaces and in close contact.

The government's shopping point reward program for promoting cashless payments, which appears to have had only a limited impact on consumption, is ending Tuesday. The program was introduced last year to mitigate the impact on spending of the October consumption tax hike from 8 percent ...

The U.S. is again grappling with a shortfall of testing that has hobbled the nation since the pandemic’s early weeks, and now threatens to further undermine containment efforts at a crucial moment. In new hot spots like Arizona, Texas and Florida, where COVID-19 is rapidly ...

Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the U.S. science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in ...

Two universities in Osaka Prefecture evacuated their campuses on Monday after a bomb threat was made out of apparent anger over the English name of their planned merged school, the operator of the schools said. A bomb threat against Osaka Prefecture University and Osaka City ...

COVID-19 is still rampaging across the U.S., which has recorded more than 125,000 deaths and 2.5 million cases — both around a quarter of the global totals.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday labeled as "shocking" and "disturbing" reports that China's ruling Communist Party is using forced sterilization, forced abortion and coercive family planning against minority Muslims. Pompeo highlighted a report about the situation in China's Xinjiang region by German ...

The United States began eliminating Hong Kong's special status under U.S. law on Monday, halting defense exports and restricting the territory's access to high technology products as China prepares new Hong Kong security legislation. The Commerce Department said it was suspending "preferential treatment to Hong ...

Japan should become a full member of the intelligence alliance

It takes courage to wage war, but it takes even greater courage to wage peace while protecting national interests.

Seventy years ago the Korean War raised legitimate fears that one U.S. loss could set off communist victories across the globe.

Young Japanese are taking an interest in the Black Lives Matter protests overseas and are trying to adapt the language of the movement in this country.

The words "oro-oro" and "atafuta" are used in a panic, but the former is used when you're at a loss of what to do.

A Kyodo story looks at a dispute between Europe and Japan over the children of international marriages.

Today's lesson looks at the demand for masks and asks what your "perfect mask" would look like.

A pitching coach for the Yomiuri Giants helped save the life of an injured man inside a subway station in Tokyo on Sunday, the team said Tuesday. The Giants' third-team pitching coach Yushi Aida performed CPR on a man who became unconscious after falling from ...

Rikako Ikee, the Japanese swimming star who has her sights set on the 2024 Paris Games despite her ongoing battle with leukemia, will feature in a one-year Tokyo Olympic countdown event, a source familiar with the plan said Tuesday. The 19-year-old is expected to address ...

Several employees were dismissed from Team New Zealand for leaking confidential information ahead of next year's regatta.

Managing director of Sports Branding Japan believes leagues and teams must come up with new business models in the wake of the coronavirus.

The Panasonic Wild Knights officially bid farewell Monday to veteran New Zealand lock Sam Whitelock and South African center Damien de Allende as part of an exodus of overseas players from the Japan Rugby Top League club. Whitelock, a World Cup winner in 2011 and ...