Health care workers in Tokyo have started receiving their second shots of a coronavirus vaccine, about three weeks after receiving their first shots.
Health care workers at medical institutions across the country started receiving their first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on February 17, as the first priority group in Japan's national vaccination program.
People who lost loved ones 10 years ago in the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan offered their prayers --- close to home.
Many chose to return to the ocean on Thursday for a quiet moment of reflection.
People in Japan are remembering those who were killed 10 years ago, when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear catastrophe. A national memorial ceremony has been held in Tokyo.
People observed a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m., the exact moment the magnitude-9 quake struck.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says the water level in a section of the basement of one of the reactor buildings has been rising since Tuesday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says the water level at the so-called triangular corner on the first basement floor of the No.3 reactor building had risen by about 18 centimeters as of 9 a.m. on Wednesday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 335 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Thursday.
The average number of new cases for the seven days through Thursday in Tokyo was 273.1, up slightly from the average for the preceding week.
The head of Japan's nuclear watchdog is urging staff to keep up the current safety measures and to prepare to face unexpected obstacles.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority was launched the year after the disaster.
The annual total of suspected child abuse cases in Japan has topped 100,000 for the first time.
The National Police Agency says 106,991 minors under 18 were referred to child consultation centers in Japan last year as suspected victims of abuse. That's an increase of 8,769 from the previous year.
People in Japan are remembering those who were killed 10 years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear catastrophe.
A national memorial ceremony will be held later Thursday but those affected have already begun their own prayers.
Japan's health ministry says eight more people have developed severe allergic symptoms after receiving a shot of the coronavirus vaccine.
The condition called anaphylaxis was reported in eight health workers in their 20s to 50s.
Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo told his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates that Japan has serious concerns about China's new coast guard law, and they agreed on the importance of maintaining maritime order based on the rule of law.
Kishi spoke for about half an hour online on Wednesday with the UAE's Minister of State for Defence Affairs, Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bawardi.
People in Japan are remembering those who were killed 10 years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear catastrophe.
A national memorial ceremony will be held later Thursday but those affected have already begun their own prayers.
A Japanese astronaut on board the International Space Station has thanked the global community for supporting areas in eastern and northeastern Japan devastated by the deadly earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011.
The video of Noguchi Soichi reading out a message from disaster survivors was uploaded to the internet early Thursday, exactly 10 years after the calamity.
Researchers at two Japanese universities and a private-sector lab have jointly developed technology that predicts tsunami flooding in near real time.
The system was developed by Tohoku University, the University of Tokyo and Fujitsu Laboratories.
The latest "Women in Politics" map shows that the proportion of women holding ministerial posts across the world has reached an all-time high of 21.9 percent.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women on Wednesday released the data for women in ministerial posts as of January 1, 2021.