Subaru to suspend domestic car production
Japanese automaker Subaru will suspend car production at all of its domestic factories due to slowing demand worldwide c...
read moreTokyo Olympics will start July 23, 2021
The postponed Tokyo Olympics will kick off on July 23 2021, while the Paralympics will begin August 24. The games were d...
read moreCORONAVIRUS: Japan bans foreign travelers from US, China, S Korea
Japan bans all travelers from the United States, China, South Korea and most of Europe, including those who have been to...
read moreJapanese travelers stranded in Peru exit the country
More than half of the 260 Japanese tourists stranded in Peru have now left the country.
read moreJapan to scale down Olympic torch relay to lantern tour
Tokyo Games organizers plan to scale down the Olympic torch relay to a lantern tour by car amid the growing novel corona...
read moreJapan to ask travelers from US to self-quarantine for 2 weeks
The Japanese government decides to ask travelers from the United States to self-quarantine for two weeks in an effort to...
read moreJapan mulls postponing Tokyo Games
Japan begins thinking about the possibility of postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as the International Olympi...
read moreOlympic flame arrives in Japan
The Olympic flame for the 2020 Tokyo Games arrives by charter plane in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas devastated in...
read moreFukushima has 1 million+ tons of radioactive water
9 years after an earthquake and tsunami caused nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, TEPCO has 1 mil...
read moreForeign visitors to Japan in Feb. drops 60% on year
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in February dropped nearly 60 percent from the year before, as the novel coronav...
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