International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is expected to travel to Japan for the first time since the Tokyo Games were postponed due to the pandemic.
In March, Bach agreed with then Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo to postpone the games for one year, and later agreed to open the games on July 23rd, 2021.
Belarusians living in Japan held a protest in Tokyo calling for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Unrest continues in Belarus as massive protests have swept the country for more than two months against suspected poll rigging in the August presidential election.
Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and Indonesian President Joko Widodo are holding talks.
Suga chose Vietnam and Indonesia as the destinations for his first overseas trip since taking office last month.
The president of Japanese professional baseball's Hanshin Tigers is stepping down to take responsibility for a string of coronavirus infections among players and staff.
Ageshio Kenji said on Friday that he will resign at the end of the season.
The president of the International Olympic Committee has shown his confidence in holding the Tokyo Games even under coronavirus restrictions.
Thomas Bach posted a message titled "Olympism and Corona" II on the IOC website after sending it to athletes, IOC members and other related parties.
Japan's main ruling party has elected Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide its new leader.
The 71-year-old politician is virtually assured to succeed Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who announced last month his intention to step down to deal with his health.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide has been elected the new leader of the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party. He is expected to win a vote in the Diet on Wednesday to become prime minister.
Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party is choosing its new leader on Monday. The vote also effectively decides who will be the country's prime minister after Abe Shinzo, who is stepping down because of health issues.
The campaign's main focus was on how much each candidate would follow Abe's policies. The coronavirus and its economic fallout drew attention, along with strategies to revitalize rural areas.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide has announced his candidacy for president of the main governing Liberal Democratic Party.
The party is set to choose a successor to its outgoing president, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, on September 14.
During Nintendo’s financial Q&A, the company’s president has since come forward to officially apologize for the issues that gamers were experiencing as a result of the drifting. In a statement made by Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa (translated by Kotaku), he apologized for it but stopped short of going into details as to how the company may (or may not) be addressing it.
“Regarding the Joy-Con, we apologize for any trouble caused to our customers. We are continuing to aim to improve our products, but as the Joy-Con is the subject of a class-action lawsuit in the United States and this is still a pending issue, we would it like to refrain from responding about any specific actions.”
The Japanese government says Prime Minster Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will hold a telephone conference on Tuesday.
Abe will talk with Bach over the phone from the prime minister's official residence at 8 p.m. Japan time. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and the head of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori, are expected to be present.
Japan and China have agreed to postpone Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Japan due to the coronavirus outbreak. Xi's visit had been scheduled for early April.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has stressed that the Tokyo summer Games will go ahead as planned. His comment comes amid concerns about the new coronavirus.
Bach spoke at a news conference on Wednesday after a two-day executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Japanese government is expected to carefully review arrangements with China for a planned visit by President Xi Jinping, including a possible postponement due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Japanese government maintains that at this moment it doesn't expect any changes in the schedule.