Saitama

The quokkas will go on display starting Wednesday for a couple of hours a day.

Friday's opening up of the prefectures paves the way for a recovery in tourism as the government seeks to revitalize the struggling sector.

More people visited urban areas Saturday in five prefectures including Tokyo than a week before, as the areas entered the first weekend since the nationwide coronavirus emergency was completely lifted, data has suggested. The number of people in Tokyo's posh Ginza district at 3 p.m. ...

At a coronavirus task force meeting, the government will decide to ease measures for Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and Hokkaido.

Honda Motor Co. will briefly halt production at two plants in Saitama Prefecture due to a disruption in the supply of parts amid the coronavirus outbreak, the automaker said earlier this week. The Sayama plant, which makes minivans along with other types of cars, will ...

Sections of major cities normally packed with shoppers appeared semi-deserted with department stores and restaurants closed for business.

A medical equipment maker said it was recently approached by the government to mass produce veterinary ventilators to treat human coronavirus patients and that dozens of other countries have expressed interest as well. Metran Co. Chief Executive Kazufuku Nitta said the government officials came calling ...

Five people are reported to have passed away from complications related to COVID-19.

Kyōtei (boat racing) is a kind of slow, aquatic NASCAR that also happens to be one of the few things that you can legally gamble on in Japan.

Some areas in Japan are struggling to secure enough public school staff to teach Japanese to children with foreign roots, amid a recent surge in the number of such students in the country, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday. The city of Yokohama, Saitama Prefecture ...

Some schools are leaving their facilities open so children will have a place to go if their parents are working.