Sources with the Tokyo Metropolitan government say 55 new cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed in the capital on Wednesday.
It's the first time since May 5 that the daily figure topped 50. The figure is also the largest since the state of emergency was lifted on May 25.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha says she has asked UNESCO to consider removing a group of Japanese industrial sites from its World Heritage list.
Kang told reporters on Tuesday that she sent a letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay the previous day.
Police in Tokyo have arrested a cyclist on suspicion of damaging a car in a possible bike rage incident.
The 42-year-old man is alleged to have deliberately hit a car with his bicycle in Suginami Ward last week.
A giant panda was a star attraction at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens on Tuesday, when it reopened after a four-month-long closure amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Visitors flocked to see Xiang Xiang, who was born at the zoo and turned 3 this month.
A Japanese supercomputer has been declared the world's most powerful for the first time in nine years.
Fugaku, developed by the RIKEN research institute and electronics giant Fujitsu, took first place in a twice-yearly speed ranking that was announced by an international conference of experts on Monday.
The operator of Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea says the theme parks will reopen on July 1. Located just outside Tokyo, both have been closed since February 29 due to the coronavirus outbreak in Japan.
Oriental Land said on Tuesday that only people who purchase tickets in advance can gain admittance for now. The measure is to prevent infections. Tickets will be available online from 3 p.m. on Thursday.
Japanese Cabinet ministers are refraining from commenting on the contents of a book written by former US national security advisor John Bolton.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide referred to a passage where Bolton says he conveyed a request from President Donald Trump to have Japan pay 8 billion dollars annually to host US troops.
Japan's health authorities reported 57 new coronavirus cases and four deaths on Tuesday.
The number of confirmed infections stands at 18,034, excluding cases from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
A group of European companies operating in Japan has called on the Japanese government to ease travel restrictions with Europe as soon as possible.
Michael Mroczek, the Chairman of the European Business Council in Japan, was speaking at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
A traditional lion dance was performed in Yokohama's Chinatown to ward off the new coronavirus on Sunday.
Up to about 80 percent of the shops there were forced to close due to the spread of the disease.
More people in Japan are visiting city centers after the government lifted restrictions on travel between prefectures on Friday.
Mobile phone location data show that, as of 3 p.m. on Saturday, the number of people around Shinjuku Station in Tokyo was 9.9 points higher than a week before.
People in Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa are looking back at one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of World War Two. Seventy-five years ago today, Japan's military operations against US forces on the islands came to an end.
An annual memorial service was held at the Peace Memorial Park in the city of Itoman on Tuesday. This is where the last major confrontation in the Battle of Okinawa took place.
Mobile phone data shows that long-distance travel from Tokyo rose sharply during the first weekend since restrictions between prefectures were relaxed last week.
NHK analyzed anonymous network data tallied by mobile carrier NTT Docomo. It shows that arrivals from Tokyo last Saturday and Sunday rose in all other prefectures compared to the final weekend of May.
Japan's health ministry is trying to repair a glitch in the nation's coronavirus contact-tracing app, which was rolled out just days ago.
The smartphone app is designed to notify users who are thought to have been in close contact with someone infected with the virus.