The new coronavirus pandemic has dealt a serious blow to Japan's traditional performing arts such as Kabuki dramas and Noh plays.
More than 4,300 performances were cancelled or postponed, resulting in losses of more than160 million dollars.
More than 30 percent of respondents to an NHK opinion poll have said next year's Olympics and Paralympics should be canceled.
The telephone survey was conducted over the weekend. More than 1,200 people answered the questions.
Japan's Imperial Household Agency is expected to cancel the New Year greetings by the imperial family due to the spread of the new coronavirus.
The imperial family greets the general public every year on January 2 and the Emperor's birthday.
Flights and train services in southwestern Japan have been cancelled as Typhoon Haishen approaches the area.
Airline companies have canceled 496 flights for Sunday, mostly to and from the southern parts of Kyushu and Okinawa. They include 135 flights of All Nippon Airways and another 135 of Japan Airlines.
Japanese airlines have cancelled 579 domestic flights scheduled for Monday due to Typhoon Haishen.
Most of the flights were to depart from or arrive at airports in the Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku regions of western Japan.
Japanese airline companies say 557 domestic flights, were canceled on Sunday due to the approach of Typhoon Haishen. Most of the flights were scheduled to depart from or arrive at airports in Okinawa or southern Kyushu.
As of 5 p.m. on Sunday, another 555 flights scheduled for Monday had also been canceled. Most of these were to depart from or arrive at airports in the Kyushu, Shikoku or the Chugoku regions of western Japan.
Japan's government is again shifting its policy on a major campaign to shore up tourism hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Transport and tourism minister Akaba Kazuyoshi now says people will not have to pay cancellation fees for trips to and from Tokyo, which have been excluded from the campaign.
Japan's government says it will compensate people for cancelation fees for bookings made under a discount program to promote domestic tourism.
The "Go To Travel" campaign is set to start on Wednesday. It's aimed at helping revive the economy, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
The operator of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea has removed 12 events and programs from its calendar through March. The cancellations include key Halloween and Christmas events at the two amusement parks.
Oriental Land said a prolonged period of shutdown due to the coronavirus has made it difficult to prepare. The parks, located just outside Tokyo, reopened on July 1 for the first time in about four months.
The Japan Sumo Association is set to cancel its May tournament as the government is preparing to extend the nationwide state of emergency for the coronavirus outbreak until the end of the month.
Multiple sources said that it is difficult for the association to go ahead with the summer grand tournament while the state of emergency is in effect.
The mid-2010s saw motorcycle builder Yamaha release a couple of nifty little concept cars, a departure from its powersports vehicles and occasional assistance in developing engines for car companies. It led to the rumors that the company might actually bring a car to production, and it culminated in the beginning development of one with Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1. Unfortunately, Yamaha revealed that project was canceled before we even saw a concept. But now a patent rendering of that very car has surfaced at the European Union's Intellectual Property Office, and while it's cool to see, it also reminds us how sad we are it was canceled.
The car is a curvy, mid-engine coupe. It almost looks a little Lotus-like. The proportions suggest it would have been quite small, similar to the Sports Ride concept coupe from 2015. Though significantly more toned-down than that concept, this stillborn Yamaha bears some interesting design cues such as the flush door handles, as well as the Y-shaped character lines on the hood. Those lines echo design cues from both the Sports Ride and Cross Hub. Extrapolating from the Sports Ride, this unnamed coupe could have been made using Murray's F1-inspired iStream production process and featured a rev-happy Yamaha motorcycle engine.
The organizers of Japan's annual spring invitational high school baseball tournament have canceled this year's event amid the spread of the new coronavirus.
The organizers planned to hold the popular event at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, without spectators in response to the outbreak.
More than a third of the calls by cruise ships at Tokyo Port scheduled for this March to December have been canceled amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Japan.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says shipping companies have cancelled 13 of 36 such calls.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's heckling during a Diet debate has angered opposition parties, leading to the cancellation of budget deliberations in the Lower House Budget Committee scheduled on Thursday.
Abe jeered a lawmaker of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party during the deliberations of the fiscal 2020 budget at the committee on Wednesday, saying, "Those questions were meaningless."