Two people from Myanmar have left for Japan to work in the country under a new visa category.
Thet Ko Htoo, aged 25, and Htet Shein Win, aged 21, left an airport in the city of Yangon on Wednesday. They will work at a resort hotel in Nago City in the southern prefecture of Okinawa.
Over 2,000 coronavirus cases were confirmed across Japan on Wednesday, surpassing the daily record set on Saturday.
Japan's Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide says his country and Australia have reached broad agreement on a pact related to joint exercises by the Self-Defense Forces and the Australian military.
At a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, Suga expressed hopes of strengthening bilateral cooperation across a wide range of fields including national security and defense.
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku has retained its position as the world's fastest.
An international conference of experts announces the world ranking for supercomputers every six months.
An opinion poll conducted in both Japan and China has shown a gap in the way people in each place think about their neighboring country.
Japanese non-profit group Genron NPO and the China International Publishing Group conducted the joint survey in September and October. About 2,600 people in the two countries responded.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is to arrive in Japan on Tuesday for talks with his counterpart Suga Yoshihide.
The Australian government says that, on the first day of his 2-day trip to Japan, Morrison plans to discuss with Suga their national responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan's health ministry has reported that 130 cases of coronavirus clusters and other multiple infections were confirmed across the nation in the week to November 9.
The number rose by 27 from the previous week, an increase of 26 percent. Ministry officials are on high alert.
NHK has learned that Japan has stationed a narcotics control agent in Hong Kong to strengthen information-gathering on drug smuggling attempts.
The health ministry last year assigned an official from the narcotics control department as a consul at a consulate-general there.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kajiyama Hiroshi says the government will work to put the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP into effect promptly.
Kajiyama spoke to reporters after an online summit and signing ceremony he attended with Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide.
The mother of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korea has urged Japan's government to resolve the abduction issue through dialogue between the leaders of the two countries.
Yokota Sakie made the appeal at a news conference ahead of the 43rd anniversary of the abduction of her daughter, Megumi, on Sunday. She was kidnapped on her way home from a junior high school. Megumi turned 56 last month.
Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has pledged more than 200 million dollars in aid to ASEAN nations to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Leaders from ten ASEAN members, as well as Japan's Suga, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, met online on Saturday.
A record 1,705 new coronavirus cases were reported in Japan on Friday, surpassing the previous high set on Thursday. The prime minister is calling for renewed vigilance.
Experts say the country is experiencing a third wave of infections. In total, there have been more than 116,000 since the outbreak began. Nearly 1,900 people have died.
Officials in Japan reported a record 1,685 new coronavirus cases in the country on Friday. That's the highest daily tally so far, topping the previous record confirmed on Thursday.
Nine people in six prefectures died of the disease, including four deaths in Saitama.
Officials in Japan confirmed 1,634 new cases of coronavirus nationwide on Thursday. That's the highest daily tally so far in the country, surpassing the previous record of 1,605 confirmed on August 7.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says 393 new cases were confirmed in the capital on Thursday.