Japanese 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...
read moreNew Aegis destroyer commissioned in Japan
A state-of-the-art Aegis destroyer is commissioned in Japan, equipped for the first time with a system that can share wi...
read morePlane to carry Olympic flame to Japan arrives in Athens
A special plane that will carry the Olympic flame to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics arrives in Athens.
read moreCORONAVIRUS: Japan to ban entry from parts of Europe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan will ban the entry of visitors from Iceland and parts of Italy, Spain and Switzerla...
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