Why did Japan’s fifth and largest wave of the coronavirus pandemic, driven by the delta variant, suddenly come to an unexpected end...
Fumio Kishida was re-elected as Japan’s prime minister Wednesday after his governing party scored a major victory in key parliamentary elections. The...
At least 17 people were wounded in a knife attack in Tokyo on Sunday, local media reported. One of the victims is...
Japan’s Princess Mako has married her college sweetheart Kei Komuro – therefore losing her royal status. Under Japanese law, female imperial family...
Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved the lower house of the country’s parliament on Thursday ahead of this month’s general election. “I...
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck the area near Japan’s capital Tokyo on Thursday evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. The center...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on Tuesday the government will lift the state of emergency imposed amid new spikes in infections...
A substance of unknown origin has been discovered in five unused vials of the Pfizer Inc. COVID-19 vaccine in two cities near...
Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has announced he will not run for re-election as party leader this month, signalling the end of...
Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a week, threatening to slow the...
The Japanese government has withdrawn an additional one million Moderna COVID-19 vaccines on Monday following two deaths that occurred after people received...
Two people have died in Japan after being vaccinated with contaminated Moderna shots, the country’s Health Ministry stated on Saturday. Both were...
Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna Inc’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, more than a week after the domestic distributor...
A man with a knife stabbed at least 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo on Friday and was arrested by...
The number of coronavirus infections in Tokyo grew by more than 5,000 in the last 24 hours, setting a new record for...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has hit the coast of the Ibaraki prefecture in Japan, with was felt by some attending the Olympic Games...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday declared a state of emergency until August 31 in prefectures of Saitama, Kanagawa, Chiba and...
The Minister of Health, Faouzi Mehdi, received, this Friday, July 16, 2021, the Japanese Ambassador to Tunisia, Shinsuke Shimizu, who, on this...
Rescuers in Japan searched on Monday for 80 people believed to be missing two days after landslides tore through the seaside city...
The Tokyo Olympics will enable up to 10,000 local spectators to watch the games from each Olympics venue or 50% of capacity,...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that the Summer Olympics in Tokyo might be held without any spectators in the...
Japanese opposition parties presented a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday as headwinds increase over his handling of...
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announced on Thursday that the number of new COVID-19 cases among younger people are increasing and called on...
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Saturday, local media reported. There are currently no casualties and no tsunami warning has...