The National Institute of Infectious Diseases found that as of Wednesday last week, the newly discovered variant had infected 394 people at home, mostly in the Kanto region.

The Tokyo Organising Committee has decided to hold the ceremony in Fukushima Prefecture behind closed doors, only permitting participants and invitees to take part.

Many finance executives and accountants are hesitant to risk balance sheets and reputations on a highly volatile and unpredictable asset that confounds convention.

Yasuhiko Taniwaki was originally scheduled to retire at age 62, as his position as a vice minister for policy coordination allowed him to stay on beyond 60.

It remains uncertain if decommissioning of the Fukushima plant can be completed on schedule between 2041 and 2051.

Seven machines, each holding about 60 PCR testing kits have been set up around the greater Tokyo area.

Hampered by a lack of supply and a shortage of specialty syringes, the health ministry is said to be taking a cautious approach after past criticism.

The combination of heat and high humidity has already reached dangerous levels in parts of the world.

No applications for drugs specifically tailored to COVID-19 have been filed yet, as domestic pharmaceutical companies have not invested heavily enough in biomedicine.

The military and its brutal practices are an omnipresent fear in Myanmar, one that has intensified since the generals seized full power in a coup last month.

A decade after the disaster, the landscape for Fukushima Prefecture and its people, as well as the nuclear sector in Japan, looks quite different.

Despite extensive efforts by Japanese authorities, they have yet to wipe out concerns over radiation contamination, especially for produce from Fukushima prefecture.

The slower growth was mainly due to weaker capital expenditure and public spending, which both expanded less than previously thought in the fourth quarter, even as exports remained solid.

Nakagawa is the second nominee to the BOJ board this year, a crucial one for the bank and for the Japanese economy as it struggles to shake off the pandemic.

Continuity contracts and a deep understanding of semiconductor design and manufacturing equip the automaker to anticipate and mitigate shortages.

As a state of emergency continues, the cumulative number of cases in the capital is now 113,861.

Those in the industry worry that draining the water from the nuclear plant into the sea would hinder the recovery they have made in the years since the disaster.

The extraction of groundwater and other resources from beneath cities including Jakarta, New Orleans and Shanghai is causing them to slowly sink.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth was in crisis talks Tuesday after Prince Harry and his wife Meghan lifted the lid on life inside Buckingham Palace with an explosive interview that reverberated around the world, local media reported. With revelations of suicidal thoughts, a racist relative and an ...

Critics have decried the planned changes as an end of democratic hopes in the former British colony.

Ten years on from the disaster, expats who gave their time to help the victims have found the experience has stuck with them.

Tomoko Namba, founder of DeNA Co., will be the only woman to occupy one of Keidanren's 20 vice chair posts.

Beijing approved an extradition treaty between the two nations in December and the deal is awaiting ratification by Ankara's parliament.

The WHO sounded its highest level of formal alarm on Jan. 30, 2020, but it didn't use the word "pandemic" until March 11.

The next launch window for a NASA crew to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocketship has been pushed back by at least another two days, to no earlier than April 22, the space agency said. SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur ...

The stricter directives come after one site did not notify users that two of its registered babysitters had allegedly sexually assaulted children in their care.

Myanmar’s military government also moved to shutter five local media outlets reporting on the protests.

While Tesla is known for its EVs, it has always been more than a car company: Its official mission is to "accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”

Women took to the streets in peaceful democracies and in countries gripped by conflict, though in far smaller numbers than last year due to the pandemic.

With the new cases, the number of confirmed instances of anaphylaxis following coronavirus inoculation across the country rose to eight.

March 11 had enduring impacts on Japan, but they aren’t at all obvious.

The 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident was Japan's greatest national crisis in the postwar era. In the midst of the crisis, the then Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government secretly commissioned experts to create a worst-case scenario in which the fuel ...

Hiroko Ito is a specialist in disaster management, and has also helped launch Kyushu’s first Mobile Pharmacy service.

Newly appointed Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto said Tuesday initial guidelines requiring Olympic athletes to be tested for the coronavirus at least once every four days are being reconsidered. Hashimoto told Kyodo News and other Japanese media organizations the frequency of testing will ...

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe told AFP Monday he wants an organization in which a woman can aspire to the top job and one that retains far more female athletes as coaches and officials. The governing body of the Olympics' marquee sport has launched a ...

The dohyō in the coastal Iwate Prefecture town of Yamada, which was swept away in the March 11 disaster, was rebuilt through donations by yokozuna Hakuho and his fellow wrestlers.

The power forward's return to the court came at the right time for Shibuya, which snapped a five-game losing streak with Sunday's win against the Alvark.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games 69-kg silver medalist and beauty pageant competitor hopes to serve as a role model both in the gym and on the stage.

Former Japan captain Makoto Hasebe has signed a one-year contract extension with Eintracht Frankurt that will take him through the 2021-22 German top-flight season, the club announced Monday. Frankfurt's joint longest-serving player, the 37-year-old Hasebe remains a key figure at Deutsche Bank Park in his ...

Phil Mickelson has fallen outside the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in 28 years. In the new rankings released Monday, Mickelson was ranked No. 101, ending his record streak at 1,425 weeks. Additionally, Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, who ...

A South Korean Olympic short-track speed skating champion banned from the national team for sexual harassment has taken Chinese citizenship and will skate for the host country at next year's Beijing Winter Games, reports said. It will be the second consecutive home Winter Olympics for ...

J. League first-division side Gamba Osaka said Monday that a player and a staff member have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, on top of six cases that saw their last two league games canceled. The two are not showing any symptoms and are in ...