Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics plan to scale back events related to the torch relay amid the spread of the novel coron...

The novel coronavirus epidemic forces major Japanese airlines to reduce domestic flights amid the rising number of infec...

The number of cases of new coronavirus infection in Japan reaches 1,000, including those from the Diamond Princess cruis...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori confirm that prepar...

Japan National Tourism Organization has a visitor hotline at 050-3816-2787 that accepts inquiries about coronavirus in E...

Japan's government aims to have national health insurance cover coronavirus tests starting next week, as officials are b...

Kanagawa Prefecture and RIKEN say they have developed a COVID-19 test that can detect the virus in just 10-30 minutes.

An event featuring Super Mario takes place in New York as a promotional event ahead of the opening this summer of the Su...

Japan decides to ban the entry of foreigners who have visited South Korea's Daegu and Cheongdo where the outbreak of inf...

The Nikkei 225 loses more than 1,000 points on Tuesday as markets react to the spread of COVID-19.