Japan's government says the flow up people is down 50 to 70 percent in areas like Tokyo where the state of emergency was...

Officials from municipalities in areas around Tokyo have shut down beach parking, park facilities, and basketball courts...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in March dropped 93 percent from the previous year as the novel coronavirus pand...

Police officers in Chiba Prefecture are making their own masks amid a shortage in the product across Japan due to the no...

Japanese supermarket chain Life decides to give each employee a one-off bonus amounting to a total of around 300 million...

Automaker Honda has started providing specially modified cars for transporting patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 t...

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo is considering cash handouts of 100,000 yen per person in response to a demand by the ruling c...

A government panel of experts on the novel coronavirus estimates that Japan could have as many as 850,000 COVID-19 patie...

Tokyo's Minato Ward follows Shibuya and Katsushika in closing its outdoor smoking areas to prevent the spread of the new...

Over 80 percent of people in Japan surveyed say the Abe administration should have declared a state of emergency sooner.