Mobile phone data show that fewer people were out on Monday night compared to a week before in downtown areas of Tokyo and Kyoto, where intensive measures were implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Measures such as restrictions on business hours took effect on Monday in the capital Tokyo, the western prefecture of Kyoto and the southern prefecture of Okinawa.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 510 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Tuesday.
The daily count surpassed 500 for the first time since Saturday.
The head of the national organization representing the fishing industry has strongly protested the government's decision to release treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.
The president of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations, Kishi Hiroshi, released a statement on Tuesday.
The Japanese government has officially decided to release treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. It will be discharged in about two years after being diluted.
The Cabinet has endorsed a draft bill on the matter. Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is promising transparency as the process moves forward.
NHK has learned that in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, the daily tally of new coronavirus infections exceeded 1,000 for the first time on Tuesday.
The Japanese government has officially decided to release treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. It will be discharged in about two years, after being diluted.
The draft bill was endorsed at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The Japanese government has officially decided to release treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, after diluting it to levels below national regulations.
The draft bill was endorsed at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Japan's health ministry says at least 1,100 seniors were given a coronavirus vaccine on the first day of the country's inoculation program for the elderly.
The effort to vaccinate about 36 million people aged 65 or over in the country got underway on Monday.
Japan's Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide says a decision on how to dispose of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant should not be put off.
Suga told a Lower House committee on Monday that the government aims to make its decision on the matter in the coming days.
Civic groups in Japan have urged the government to continue studying ways to dispose of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant other than releasing it into the ocean.
The groups met reporters in Tokyo on Monday before the government officially decides to release the treated water.
NHK's latest poll shows the approval rating of Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide's Cabinet at 44 percent, up 4 points from last month. The disapproval rating is 38 percent, up 1 point.
NHK conducted the telephone survey of 2,092 people over the weekend and 1,222 responded.
Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has praised golfer Matsuyama Hideki for becoming the first Japanese man to have won one of the world's four major tournaments.
Suga told reporters on Monday that the historic Masters win by Matsuyama must have given courage and moved people of Japan amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus vaccinations for elderly people aged 65 and older began in Japan on Monday.
Medical workers in the country have been receiving the vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech since February.
Japan's Meteorological Agency says hundreds of earthquakes have been occurring in waters near the Tokara Islands in the country's southwest since Friday.
Some of the jolts registered 3 or 4 on the Japanese intensity scale of zero to 7 on Akuseki-jima island and elsewhere. The island chain is located in Toshima Village, Kagoshima Prefecture.