"There's no doubt that one of the reasons is concern over coronavirus infections," Toshiro Muto, CEO of the organizing committee, told reporters.

Internet portal Yahoo Japan Corp. said Wednesday that it had introduced a system allowing its workers to take leave of absence for fertility treatment for up to one year. Through the system, which covers some 7,900 permanent, contract and fixed-term employees, Yahoo Japan hopes to ...

The support for the Tokyo Games in a forthcoming communique was "strongly requested" by Japan, according to a diplomatic source.

Despite only one COVID-19 fatality in the last 13 months and growing protection from inoculations, top officials maintain aggressive rhetoric when talking about the virus' risks.

More than 60 Japanese companies together paid a record of more than $3 billion to sponsor the Tokyo Games, an event most Japanese now want canceled or delayed again.

The move comes as a bid to boost the country's defense capabilities against airspace incursions by China and Russia.

Research is showing that these patients are dramatically less likely to develop protective antibodies using the authorized vaccine dosage.

The JBS attack is thrusting America’s system of churning out cheap meat back into the spotlight.

Shigeru Omi, head of a government coronavirus panel, said that if the games were to be held, the event should be scaled down as much as possible.

The Manga-Mura website is believed to have caused the manga industry losses of over ¥300 billion.

A total of 4,653,566 medical personnel and 5,734,023 people aged 65 and over had received at least one shot of vaccine as of Tuesday.

Under Masakazu Tokura, the federation is expected to draw up new action plans in October for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.

A total of some 6,000 people will be eligible for the program.

New digital technologies are enabling farmers to increase crop output and income without needing additional human labor.

Gone are the days when Japan was dominant in semiconductor and battery production, industries that are increasingly relevant in the modern world.

Individual EU countries can still choose to demand a negative COVID-19 test or a period of quarantine.

In a veiled reference to China’s ramped-up pressure on democratic Taiwan, Adm. John Aquilino and Suga agreed on the “importance of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.”

A total of 497 campuses at 350 public and private universities nationwide have said they can offer their facilities.

The seven-day average of doses given has quadrupled in just two weeks, with about a quarter of the nearly 14 million shots given coming in the past week alone.

The demand for change is coming from many sides: lawsuits, shareholders and the International Energy Agency have all turned up the heat on firms recently.

China’s decision to relax birth rules by allowing all families to have three children was met with skepticism from economists who doubt it’ll make much of a difference.

Japan has been supportive of the U.K.’s efforts to seal global trade deals as it seeks to carve out a bigger role in Asia following its exit from the EU.

Early in the pandemic, the IMF and World Bank warned the pandemic would set back poor countries' progress, causing increased inequality and a resurgence of poverty.

The key benefit of self-replicating vaccines is their efficiency, as they require only a fraction of the dosage of conventional vaccines to trigger a strong immune response.

The last time that the BOJ did not make any ETF purchases for a whole month was in December 2012.

The grim find at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in western British Columbia offered a stark reminder of the widespread discrimination experienced by the country's indigenous people.

Boosted by surging export receipts and investment flows, the value of foreign cash deposits in China's banks leapt above $1 trillion for the first time in April.

"Now, when there's smoke here, everybody panics," said Steve Crowder, mayor of the small town of Paradise that was almost wiped off the map by California's deadly 2018 wildfires. The former police officer still struggles to hold back tears when talking about the blaze that ...

Malaysia's air force said it scrambled jets on Monday to conduct visual confirmation after the planes flew within 60 nautical miles of Malaysian Borneo's Sarawak state.

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa said that measures such as waiving intellectual property rights over the vaccines could help battle the pandemic.

Biden marked the centenary of the massacre by meeting survivors, after the White House announced initiatives including billions of dollars in grants to address racial disparities in wealth

Xi told top party leaders that China must "make friends extensively, unite the majority and continuously expand its circle of friends with those who understand and are friendly to China.”

Until the cease-fire, the world’s attention was trained on Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza, which may have suited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is facing trial on corruption charges. And Netanyahu is hardly the only populist leader in legal peril. From Austria to the United Kingdom ...

The WHO first learned of the COVID-19 outbreak from Taiwan, news articles, a public bulletin and from an automated alert system that scans the internet for mentions of unexplained pneumonia.

A business based on mining, hauling and burning heavy rocks to spit out electrons struggles to survive everywhere that fuel-free renewables manage to take root.

What now gets disclosed is often subject to manipulation, presumably to make the numbers look better.

At the global level, the International Monetary Fund has warned of a “great divergence,” whereby rich countries recover strongly while others flounder.

To protect the party, even companies and their successful CEOs will be sacrificed if those interests in any way conflict with or threaten the supremacy and policies of the CCP.

A move by the U.S. private equity firm to purchase a stake of New Zealand Rugby's commercial operations has drawn criticism.

The American is ready to defend his Olympic gold medal at last after the games were pushed back a year due to the pandemic.

Chiba, which lost the last two finals to the Alvark Tokyo, put down feisty Utsunomiya in Tuesday's decisive Game 3 to claim its first-ever league championship.

The possibility remains that ozeki Terunofuji and Takakeisho could both be offered the white rope depending on how results pan out at next month's Nagoya Basho.

The legendary Maracana will be among venues chosen to hold the tournament, which was moved from Argentina due to that country's worsening COVID-19 situation.

A pro-business group based in Texas, the Job Creators Network, has filed a federal lawsuit against Major League Baseball for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, seeking $1 billion in punitive damages and $100 million in damages to local businesses. In April, MLB announced ...

A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday called on American basketball stars to end endorsements of Chinese sportswear firms that use cotton grown in China's Xinjiang region, warning against complicity in forced labor they say takes place there. In a letter to the National Basketball Players ...

"I think she was very brave to do that. I'm really sorry that she is going through painful times and suffering mentally," the men's world No. 1 said on Tuesday.