Japan's defense minister has ordered the Self-Defense Forces to send nurses to the prefecture of Hokkaido to help ease the shortage of healthcare workers due to the coronavirus.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials confirmed 352 new cases of coronavirus in the capital on Tuesday.
The number of people who have tested positive in Tokyo now stands at 44,355.
Japan's Prime Minister says the government has compiled an additional stimulus package worth over 700 billion dollars to tackle the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy.
Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide spoke at a meeting with senior officials on Tuesday.
A capsule released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's space probe Hayabusa2 arrived at a lab near Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday.
The capsule is believed to contain samples from the Ryugu asteroid. It was retrieved after landing in an Australian desert on Sunday.
A capsule released by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe Hayabusa2 arrived in Japan from Australia on Tuesday morning.
The capsule is believed to contain sand samples from Ryugu asteroid. It was retrieved after landing in an Australian desert on Sunday.
Medical institutions in Japan are straining to cope with clustered infections.
Group infections occurred at around 100 hospitals in November... more than three times as many as the previous month.
A US group of foreign policy experts has called for boosting Japan-US cooperation in the face of challenges from China and North Korea.
The experts, including former US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage and Harvard University Professor Joseph Nye, released a report on Monday.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, says a capsule released by the agency's asteroid probe Hayabusa2 will arrive in Japan from Australia on Tuesday morning.
The capsule is believed to contain sand samples from the Ryugu asteroid. It was retrieved after landing in an Australian desert on Sunday.
A surging number of coronavirus cluster infections in Japan is raising fears that medical care system in affected communities will be overstretched.
The health ministry compiles weekly data on clusters based on media reports.
The northern Japanese city of Asahikawa has requested Hokkaido's prefectural government to ask the Self-Defense Forces to send nurses to deal with a series of coronavirus cluster infections.
City officials on Monday asked the Hokkaido government to recognize the situation as a disaster and convey the request for nurses to the SDF.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed 299 new cases of the coronavirus as of 3 p.m. Monday.
This marks the first time since November 24 that the figure was below 300. The number of cases confirmed on Mondays is usually lower because many medical institutions are closed on weekends.
NHK has learned that Vietnamese technical trainees in Japan and other people are being deceived into taking part in illegal gambling.
Police are on heightened alert. Groups supporting foreign technical trainees are also warning them against taking part in suspicious gatherings.
Officials in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, are culling about 134,000 chickens after the H5 strain of bird flu was detected at a local farm.
The officials say they found dead chickens at a farm in the city of Mihara on Sunday. They say the dead poultry tested positive for the virus.
Japan's leading steelmaker is showing signs of a continuing recovery in the global economy. Nippon Steel says it will restart another furnace that's been offline due to the pandemic slowdown.
Executives say they plan to fire up a blast furnace in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo by the end of January.