Subaru to suspend domestic car production

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...

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Tokyo Olympics will start July 23, 2021

Tokyo 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...

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CORONAVIRUS: Japan bans foreign travelers from US, China, S Korea

CORONAVIRUS: 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...

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Japanese travelers stranded in Peru exit the country

Japanese travelers stranded in Peru exit the country

More than half of the 260 Japanese tourists stranded in Peru have now left the country.

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Japan to scale down Olympic torch relay to lantern tour

Japan 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...

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Japan to ask travelers from US to self-quarantine for 2 weeks

Japan 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...

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Japan mulls postponing Tokyo Games

Japan mulls postponing Tokyo Games

Japan begins thinking about the possibility of postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as the International Olympi...

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Olympic flame arrives in Japan

Olympic 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...

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Fukushima has 1 million+ tons of radioactive water

Fukushima 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...

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Foreign visitors to Japan in Feb. drops 60% on year

Foreign 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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