Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says Japan must set up a system that clearly shows its counterstrikes are not pre-emptive attacks, when the country faces missile attacks.

Kishida said at an Upper House budget committee meeting on Wednesday that Japan must be fully-equipped to protect people's lives and livelihoods amid rapidly evolving missile and other technologies.

Three people were injured in bear attacks on Friday in central Japan's Fukui Prefecture.

A bear assaulted a Japan Railways employee in his 50s at around 8:30 a.m. on Friday at the JR Tsuruga Station in the city of Tsuruga.

As stay-at-home life continues for people in Japan, some are taking to the Internet to criticize others they see as flouting coronavirus preventive measures.

Unlike many other countries, under its state of emergency, Japan asks that the public voluntarily restrain themselves from going out. Some citizens have taken it upon themselves to police others and have been dubbed "the voluntary restraint police."

Japanese electronics company NEC may have come under cyber-attacks, with about 28,000 data files likely leaked.

Sources say the attacks occurred over several years through 2018. They add the possibly compromised files contained information on defense technologies, such as submarine sonar.