Japan launches a smartphone app that notifies users when they may have come into contact with someone infected with the ...

Former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki and his wife Anri - both lawmakers of Japan - are arrested for allegedly buying ...

Nearly 4,000 demonstrators in Tokyo march against racial discrimination in the wake of the death of African-American Geo...

Japan's Diet enacts the second supplementary budget worth a record 31.9 trillion yen to deal with the economic impact of...

The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee are attempting to simplify the postponed ...

Job availability in Japan dropped for the fourth consecutive month in April due to effects of the novel coronavirus pand...

The mayor of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture warns of a possible second wave of the novel coronavirus in the southweste...

The Japanese government approves its 2nd supplementary budget plan amounting to 117.1 trillion yen ($1 trillion dollars)...

Tokyo is set to slowly reopen on Tuesday, with museums, libraries, pools and other facilities see restrictions eased.

Japan will conduct antibody tests for the novel coronavirus on nearly 10,000 people in Tokyo, Osaka and Miyagi prefectur...