With around 50 days to go before the Olympics open, the organizers and government continue to ramp up efforts to prevent cyberattacks from disrupting the games.

Such storms have wrought havoc running into damages of more than $175 billion across Asia in the past decade, international disaster database EM-DAT shows.

Extensions are thought to be unnecessary if the current infection trends continue in Gunma, Ishikawa and Kumamoto, government sources said.

Suga may also meet separately with other G7 leaders as well as his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.

The vaccine rollout may be accelerating, but the nation remains far away from a return to normalcy.

Reliable estimates are hard to come by but analysts suspect hundreds of people have trekked into insurgent-held areas to receive crash courses in combat.

The data revealed that the trend of rapid aging of the nation's population is accelerating amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

While basic costs for dealing with the coronavirus are being subsidized by the government, additional measures to ensure safe transportation and accommodation are not.

The struggle to release new models amid a global shortage of automotive chips is one that automakers worldwide are facing, but the issue is particularly acute for Nissan.

The capital’s average daily tally of new cases in the week to Friday stood at 455, compared with 580 a week before.

A vaccine shortage amid rising case numbers in Taiwan has raised fears of a health crisis that could hurt its semiconductor production, which is crucial for global industry.

In recent years, medicines that free the immune system to attack tumors have become blockbusters in a $150 billion global market.

A huge gap has been created between international and domestic steel prices, and Nippon Steel Corp. risks falling behind, the firm's executive vice president, Takahiro Mori, has said.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a report Friday that it would treat semiconductor industry growth as a "national project."

Shin Shin, 15, has already produced one cub, the now 3-year-old Xiang Xiang.

With the Foreign Ministry continuing to advise against travel to Europe, however, it remains unlikely that the region will see a sudden increase of Japanese tourists.

Consumption rebounded from a sharp decline triggered by the initial coronavirus shock last year but remained below pre-pandemic levels.

Boom's plane is capable of flying at twice the speed of leading aircraft now on the market, and uses renewable fuel.

While the debate still rages over whether it’s safe to hold the Tokyo Olympics, investors in the capital’s real estate sector may be saying the games must go on.

Concern has been growing about the huge disparity in vaccination rates between developing countries and advanced economies.

Ground down by the sapping realities of modern city life, China's youth are "lying flat," the latest buzzword for those tapping out of a culture of endless work with little reward.

Deposits at the nation’s top three banks alone grew by ¥41 trillion in the year ending in March.

Thousands of officers were on standby after the government banned an annual candlelight vigil that has served for decades as a day of pro-democracy demonstrations in the city.

In the Kansai region, people are anxious that those involved with the Tokyo Games may catch the virus and bring it back west.

The order prevents U.S. investment from supporting the Chinese military-industrial complex, as well as military, intelligence, and security research and development programs.

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Utsunomiya Brex guard Toews was named the Rookie of the Year for the 2020-21 season.

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"The power of sports" is of little comfort to people worried about the medical situation and their future lives.

"The fact that I got that much court time in the playoffs means the team trusts me, and I feel like I delivered results," Hachimura said.

It was the first matchup between two Japanese national sides since 1980, when teams separated by their age faced each other.

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