Two lawmakers have kicked off campaigning for the leadership of Japan's new main opposition party, which will be mainly formed by a merger of two existing ones.
The policy chief of the Democratic Party for the People, Izumi Kenta, and the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Edano Yukio, are running for leadership.
Computer security experts in Japan are warning of an increased risk of cyberattacks, as many business people telecommute and use their computers in less secure environments.
The National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity notes that the coronavirus outbreak has changed the way people use computers.
A district court has recognized for the first time people who were exposed to radioactive rain immediately after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 as "hibakusha," or sufferers of the bombing.
In 2015, a total of 84 plaintiffs, including local residents aged 75 to 96 and bereaved family members, filed a lawsuit against Hiroshima City and Hiroshima Prefecture.
Members of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party speculate that some officials are poising themselves to become the next party leader.
LDP policy chief Kishida Fumio and former LDP secretary-general Ishiba Shigeru are among those tipped as a possible successor to Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday it expects profit to drop by 80% to its lowest in nine years, as Japan's biggest automaker grapples with the impact of the novel coronavirus which has sapped global demand for vehicles.
Honda Motor Co on Tuesday posted its lowest operating profit in four years and refrained from releasing an earnings outlook for the current year because of uncertainty about the longer-term impact of the coronavirus on global car demand.
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank Group announced on Monday that it expects to post a huge loss for fiscal 2019, which ended in March.
The group forecasts an operating loss of 1.35 trillion yen, or about 12.5 billion dollars.
Japanese Justice Minister Masako Mori has apologized for controversial remarks she made during Monday's Diet session, and says she wants to continue in her post.
Mori said that prosecutors fled Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture before the public when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011.
A team of US environmental experts has surveyed an area of northeastern Japan that was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11 2011.
On Tuesday, a team from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center visited a lagoon in Rikuzentakata City in Iwate Prefecture. The lagoon was connected to the sea after a massive tsunami.