Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu said plans to reopen the country to guided tours June 10 were unchanged despite the coronavirus infection of a tourist.

Matsuno also told reporters on Tuesday that he has not heard about any change in the plan to ease restrictions on the number of people who can enter the country from Wednesday. The comments come after a tourist visiting Japan on a trial basis was found to be infected with the coronavirus.

A town in western Japan has decided to discipline its mayor and others over an incident in which state cash allowances for local families worth 46.3 million yen, or about 362,000 dollars, were mistakenly transferred to a resident's bank account.

The incident occurred last month in Yamaguchi Prefecture's Abu Town. The resident refused to pay back the money. He argued that he had spent all the funds gambling online, and that he had already transferred the money to payment service agencies.

Japan is ending a measure that suspended some work restrictions on foreign nationals prevented from returning home by the pandemic.

Immigration authorities introduced the temporary measure in 2020, allowing part-time work to maintain livelihoods. It covered people with a type of visa that would not normally allow them to work during their stay.

Evacuees from Ukraine are helping a baking company in central Japan make traditional Ukrainian bread.

The bread maker in Aichi Prefecture has developed two types of bread with the advice of a Ukrainian couple who arrived in the country last month.

Tokyo's largest food market is resuming public viewings of its famed tuna auction from Thursday after a five-month hiatus.

The Toyosu market's special observation deck has been closed to visitors since January 11, when Japan faced a resurgence of coronavirus infections.

South Korea has pushed back against Tokyo's protest over a maritime survey Seoul conducted in Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Takeshima Islands.

South Korea controls the islands in the Sea of Japan. Japan claims them.

Japan's supercomputer Fugaku is on the top of the list in two categories of the world's high-performance computer rankings for the fifth straight time.

An international conference of experts announces the rankings every six months.

Japanese telecommunication giant NTT has revealed its latest technology using artificial intelligence. The demonstrations are the result of studies by its research center based on the theme of communication.

The company showed a robot that can start a conversation by recognizing surrounding images such as roadside scenery and respond to what a person says.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 1,344 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Monday.

New cases fell by nearly 700 from the previous week. That represents the 17th straight day of week-on-week declines.

Most major Japanese automakers continued to feel the effects of global production problems in April. The firms saw their worldwide output fall amid chip shortages and supply disruptions caused by lockdowns in Shanghai.

Production dropped 54.2 percent at Honda, 49.9 percent at Mazda and 31.4 percent at Mitsubishi. Nissan posted a decline of 26.5 percent, Toyota's production dropped 9.1 percent, while Suzuki fell 4.6 percent.

A group of student volunteers has left Japan for Poland on a mission to help Ukrainian evacuees with disabilities who have crossed the border to flee Russia's invasion of their country.

A send-off ceremony for 25 students was held on Monday in Tokyo.

Tokyo police have arrested a 45-year-old company executive and her two sons on suspicion of abusing a coronavirus-related government subsidy program.

The three are Taniguchi Rie, who lives in Tsu City in the central prefecture of Mie, and her sons in their 20s.

One of Tokyo's trendiest neighborhoods is getting a makeover.

A new commercial zone fully opened over the weekend around Shimokitazawa Station, an area that has long been popular among youth. It occupies space that was freed up when railway tracks were moved underground.

Japan's top government spokesperson says the country will closely monitor the discussions surrounding the UN human rights chief's visit to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China last week.

During his news conference on Monday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu mentioned the two-day trip to Xinjiang taken by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.