One hundred and eighteen more people in Tokyo were confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus on Saturday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says the patients include girls between the ages of 10 and 19, and men and a woman into their 90's. There is no clear infection route for 81 of them, or nearly 70 percent.
Four more coronavirus infections have been reported in Japan as of Friday afternoon, bringing the total number to 1,405. This includes 14 confirmed cases among people who returned from China's Hubei Province on chartered flights.
The figure was provided by the health ministry and local governments. It includes 33 cases among health ministry staff, quarantine officers and those who were found to have the virus during arrival checks at airports.
The number of coronavirus infections in Japan had increased to 456 as of 8:00 p.m. on Sunday. In addition to this figure, 696 people from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have been infected, and 14 cases have been confirmed among people who returned on chartered flights from Hubei Province in China.
The tally is based on data compiled by the health ministry and local governments.
NHK has learned that the number of people in Japan who tested positive for the new coronavirus had risen to 894 as of Thursday morning.
Of the total, 175 are people who were infected in Japan or tourists from China, 705 are passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and 14 had returned from China on chartered flights.
A man in his 40s has tested positive for the virus in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. That's the 88th case of infection outside passengers and crew from the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
Earlier, authorities in the southwestern city of Fukuoka said a man in his 60s had also tested positive. He has not been abroad recently and is the first confirmed case in the Kyushu region.