The woman received a Pfizer Inc. shot on Friday and died Monday, and the causal relationship between her death and the vaccine is indeterminable, the health ministry said.

The request, which could come as early as Friday, will be the third such application for regulatory approval.

Although she is a centenarian in human years, the koala named Midori is doing fine with no serious health problems, according to Awaji Farm Park England Hill.

Those who disagreed with holding the games accounted for 56% in Japan, the highest proportion among the six countries surveyed.

Suga is hoping for a reset by securing funds for important policy goals, in the process putting the LDP back on a positive trajectory ahead of an election this year.

An unknown number of cases may have gone unreported due to strained resources, bureaucratic missteps and temporary policy changes.

The sport has seen increases in visits to courses and related merchandise sales, as more people — particularly those from younger generations — are taking it up as a new hobby.

Emails, court documents and more than a dozen interviews detail the Taylors' failed quest to employ tactics that let so many well-connected people avoid legal trouble in the Trump era.

Weak capital expenditure is likely to worry policymakers counting on private-sector investment to shake off the health crisis.

Tokyo has asked Beijing not to subject Japanese nationals entering the country to the tests after receiving complaints of "psychological distress" from some of them.

With a combined user base of about 150 million in Japan, the merger of Z Holdings and Line will create one of the biggest information technology companies in the country.

The health ministry said 172 vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were rendered useless after a freezer breakdown over the weekend.

The proposed reform will put further pressure on pro-democracy activists, who are already the subject of a crackdown, and has ruffled the feathers of some Beijing loyalists.

China's Defense Ministry has doubled-down on the issue, noting pointedly that it would work to normalize the patrols in the waters near the islets.

A moment of silence will be observed at 2:46 p.m., when the huge quake shook Japan a decade ago, triggering tsunamis as well as a nuclear crisis in Fukushima, and killing more than 15,000 people.

As border skirmishing increased last year, malware began to flow into the Indian electric grid, a new study shows, and a blackout hit Mumbai. It now looks like a warning.

The workers who make the Japanese shows the world is binge-watching can earn as little as $200 a month. Many wonder how much longer they can endure it.

Hoshide will be the second Japanese person to have traveled on all three spacecraft — the U.S. Space Shuttle, Russia's Soyuz and the Crew Dragon.

Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate. That changed on Sunday, when it emerged that the Kremlin's most outspoken critic, Alexei Navalny, who ...

As many wealthier developed nations have signed big deals with large drugmakers, other countries have faced difficulties securing adequate vaccine supplies.

China is today the world's largest emitter of planet-heating gases, responsible for about 28% of total global emissions.

President Joe Biden has sought to "recalibrate" the decades-old alliance and has also said the U.S. will end support for offensive operations in the Saudi war in Yemen.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has made big promises to environmentalists as well as labor groups and others who stand to benefit by boosting mining.

The magnitude of the ambition — this is bigger than anything Japan, South Korea or the U.S. ever did, experts say — could help Xi cement the legitimacy of Communist Party rule.

Taking steps toward decarbonization is one of the pillars of Nippon Steel’s mid-term business plan starting April, the firm said.

Even I can see the opportunity that Japan has to become a national security superpower.

Since Russians began protesting opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s imprisonment, the security forces have apparently had carte blanche to arrest demonstrators — and they have done so by the thousands. If Russians so much as honk their car horns in solidarity with the protesters, they ...

Trump sounded most sad and pathetic as he again circled back toward the Big Lie about the 2020 election.

Japan and Australia need to team up with the United States and the United Kingdom to shore up values and ideals in the region.

Matthew Ketchum was sitting at home on March 11, 2011, when the shaking started. In a matter of hours, his whole world changed.

Growing up beside Japan's huge animation industry, a music scene based on creating and performing the theme tunes and hit songs of popular anime works has come a long way in the past few decades, becoming a mainstream phenomenon at home and arousing growing ...

The Obic running back and 2020 X League MVP, who is currently taking part in an NFL program for potential international talent in Florida, is generating hype as a player to watch.

The former "citizen runner," who gained international attention after winning the 2018 Boston Marathon, hit the triple-digit mark last December at the Hofu Marathon in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Globalization is a key component of professional sports leagues around the world and the National Football League is no exception, despite its reputation as a U.S.-centric league, which stems in part from its smaller slate of international players compared with other major North American ...

Stunned Jiangsu FC fans are holding out hope that new backers will come to the rescue of the Chinese Super League champion after the club was sensationally shut down by owner Suning this week. Suning Group, who bought Jiangsu in late 2015 and also owns ...

Kei Nishikori won his first ATP Tour match in five months on Monday, beating seventh-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 in the first round of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. The win at the hard court tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, was Nishikori's ...

The 26-year-old is expected to return to his role as a two-way player for the 2021 season.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday canceled the suspension of the Iranian judo federation, imposed after it ordered judoka Saeid Mollaei not to fight against an Israeli. The CAS said it was referring the case back to the International Judo Federation which imposed ...

All Blacks halfback Aaron Smith has re-signed with New Zealand Rugby through to the 2023 World Cup in France. Smith, the most-capped New Zealand scrumhalf of all time with 97 test appearances, will also remain with his long-time provincial side Otago Highlanders as part of ...

Japan's prospective Olympic men's soccer team will gear up for the Tokyo Games by hosting two friendlies against their under-24 counterparts from Argentina in late March, the Japan Football Association said Monday. With Japan having effectively halted the entry of nonresident foreigners to combat the ...