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 Japanese government has adopted a set of measures to deal with the new strain of coronavirus that emerged from China after Japan's first case was confirmed last week.
A man who returned from Wuhan, China, was confirmed last Thursday as the country's first patient.
The Japanese Communist Party, or JCP, has amended its platform for the first time in 16 years. It has also adopted a resolution intended to strengthen its cooperation with opposition parties.
The party finished a five-day convention in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Saturday.