Japan's government adopts a basic policy to contain the spread of COVID-19.

35 passengers from the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess infected with coronavirus will be transferred to a hospi...

Japan reports the first death in the country of a patient infected with the new coronavirus.

The Japanese government decides to expand its entry ban on foreigners from China to include those who have stayed in Zhe...

Ten out of the approximately 3,700 people quarantined on a cruise ship off Yokohama are found to be infected with the ne...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says a government ordinance with binding power to contain the new coronavirus, including refus...

The Japanese government's third charter flight from Wuhan, China, arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

A Japanese government-chartered plane with 206 evacuees from Wuhan, China, arrives in Tokyo after hundreds of Japanese n...

Japan confirms the first case of new coronavirus infection in a Japanese national who has not visited China.

Japan plans to add the new coronavirus to its list of designated infectious diseases, allowing the government to take co...