Japan's Upper House has adopted a resolution expressing concerns about the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and elsewhere in China.

The resolution was passed by a majority vote in the chamber's plenary session on Monday.

The Upper House of Japan's Diet will begin studying ways to move their deliberations online.

In the latest ordinary Diet session, lawmakers were seated spaced apart in the main chamber to observe social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Japan's Upper House budget committee approved a second supplementary budget for the current fiscal year on Friday to respond to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The budget is expected to be enacted in the afternoon at a plenary session.

The economic package is worth 31.9 trillion yen, or more than 298 billion dollars, a record for a supplementary budget.