A Japanese government survey shows that more than 100,000 jobs have been lost due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The survey covers the period from the end of January last year to Wednesday.

Fuji Media Holdings, one of Japan's major media firms, has acknowledged that the ratio of its foreign investors with voting rights exceeded a legal limit from 2012 to 2014.

Fuji Media is the parent company of broadcaster Fuji Television Network. As a licensed broadcaster, the company is required to keep its foreign voting rights below 20 percent under Japan's broadcasting law.

Komuro Kei, who is to be engaged to Japan's Princess Mako, has released a document to explain details of a financial issue between his mother and her former fiance.

The Imperial Household Agency announced in 2017 that the princess and Komuro were getting engaged. But media including weekly magazines reported that his mother was in financial trouble with her former fiance. The agency announced a postponement of the string of events leading up to the wedding.

Stricter measures against the coronavirus are returning to Tokyo as a surge in new cases follows the lifting of the state of emergency last month.

Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko said, "From the viewpoint of crisis management, we have asked the central government to designate Tokyo as an area where strict measures should be taken."

Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide says the government plans to apply intensive anti-coronavirus measures in Tokyo. He says the government will make the decision on Friday after consulting experts.

The stricter measures for the capital will not require an emergency declaration.

Japan's health ministry says three of its employees have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a farewell party last month at a restaurant in Tokyo.

A total of 23 employees at the Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly joined the party on March 24.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government asked the central government on Thursday to allow it to take intensive anti-coronavirus measures in the capital without an emergency declaration.

Coronavirus infections continue to grow in Tokyo, adding to fears about a rapid resurgence. Officials are also alarmed by an increase in the number of cases of a coronavirus variant that is said to be more transmissible.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed 545 new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday.

This is the first time the capital's daily tally has exceeded 500 for two days in a row since the state of emergency in Tokyo was lifted on March 21.

Kyoto University Hospital says it has carried out the world's first lung transplant from living donors to treat severe lung damage caused by the coronavirus.

Professor Date Hiroshi, the director of the thoracic surgery department, held a news conference on Thursday with other staff members.

The Japanese government's decision on how to dispose of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected as early as next week. Officials are likely to take the option of discharging it into the sea.

A government panel of experts last year suggested diluting the water containing tritium and some other radioactive substances to a safe level and then releasing it into the sea or air.

Japanese researchers have found that the British coronavirus variant found in Japan is on average 1.32 times more transmissible than the original virus.

Researchers at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases analyzed the transmissibility of the coronavirus variant first confirmed in Britain from cases reported in Japan during a 50-day period ending on March 22.

Japan's Defense Ministry says members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces on a counter-piracy mission off Somalia have been infected with the coronavirus.

About 180 Self-Defense Force personnel are currently stationed at the mission's base in Djibouti.

A Japanese pianist has given a concert days before she turns 100.

Muroi Mayako was born in 1921. She started her career as a professional pianist in 1945 and then moved to Berlin and performed in 13 countries in her 30s to 50s. Muroi is the oldest active pianist in Japan.

Japan's western prefecture of Osaka has declared a medical "red alert," and reported a record 878 new cases of coronavirus infections on Wednesday. Osaka's daily cases have topped Tokyo's for more than a week.

Osaka Governor Yoshimura Hirofumi said, " We are declaring a medical state of emergency as the medical system is facing a difficult situation."