Over 350,000 people have joined a petition to cancel the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics amid growing concerns over the c...

The Japanese government decides to add Hokkaido, Hiroshima and Okayama to prefectures covered under the country’s third ...

Forty-five local governments in Japan have decided not to host foreign national teams competing in the Tokyo Olympics an...

Nightlife workers are shifting to daytime jobs due to the adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their industry.

Ducklings born at a temple in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto move to a river with a little help from people in the nei...

Japan’s top coronavirus expert stresses the importance of prior assessment on factors that could be impacted by holding ...

A Muji supermarket that sells fresh produce will open at a mall in Yokohama on May 14.

A bureaucrat at Japan's health ministry calls for work reforms for government employees who are often forced to work ext...

Toyota Motor logs a net profit of nearly 2.25 trillion yen in fiscal 2020 that ended in March, up about 10 percent from ...

Japanese researchers find that two doses of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s vaccine are effective for coronavirus v...