CORONAVIRUS: 3 Japanese from 1st charter flight test positive
3 from the first group of 206 Japanese nationals to return to Japan from Wuhan on a charter flight are found to be infec...
read moreEmperor Emeritus Akihito loses consciousness
Japan's Imperial Household Agency reports that Emperor Emeritus Akihito lost consciousness briefly on Wednesday evening,...
read moreCORONAVIRUS: Jetstar refuses Chinese tourists
Low-cost airline Jetstar Japan refuses to let tourists from China board a plane.
read moreTokyo Olympic village plaza unveiled
The plaza of the Tokyo Games athletes' village is unveiled ahead of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
read moreJapanese evacuees from virus-hit Wuhan arrive in Tokyo
A Japanese government-chartered plane with 206 evacuees from Wuhan, China, arrives in Tokyo after hundreds of Japanese n...
read moreJapan confirms 1st domestic infection of new coronavirus
Japan confirms the first case of new coronavirus infection in a Japanese national who has not visited China.
read moreFirst heart surgery using iPS cells
Researchers at Osaka University become the first to treat severe heart disease by surgically transplanting sheets of hea...
read moreFrance's first Japanese 3-star Michelin chef
The Michelin Guide awards its coveted 3-star rating to a Japanese chef in France for the first time.
read morePrincess Kako's sign language speech
Japan's Princess Kako addresses the audience in sign language at ceremony to honor mothers that raised hearing-impaired ...
read moreSnow falls west of Tokyo
Some parts of Japan's Kanto and Koshin regions, west of Tokyo, are hit with over 30cm of snow.
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