Japan's health ministry says it has confirmed the country's eighth case of infection with a new strain of the coronavirus.
The ministry says a Tokyo resident in her 50s tested positive for the variant on Sunday.
Japan's health ministry says five people who returned to Japan from Britain have tested positive for a new variant of the coronavirus.
The five were earlier found to be infected with the coronavirus at an airport in Japan.
A court in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has acquitted a woman who allegedly shook her baby violently, leaving him with serious aftereffects to the brain.
Asano Akane, aged 27, was indicted for seriously injuring her three-month-old son in 2016 by shaking him forcefully. The boy is suffering from permanent brain damage.
More details have surfaced about the investigation into Lower House member Akimoto Tsukasa who was arrested on Thursday while out on bail in a bribery case involving a casino project.
Akimoto Tsukasa was released on bail in February after being indicted for receiving bribes from a Chinese firm that had tried to take part in the casino project, backed by the Japanese government. He had been on bail pending his trial.
Japan's government says it will keep all options open, in response to South Korea's moves to sell off the assets of a Japanese firm due to a wartime labor lawsuit.
A South Korean court said that as of Tuesday, legal procedures to notify the Japanese side of the asset seizure order were deemed complete.
Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko reported 463 new cases of the coronavirus in the Japanese capital on Friday.
This is the first time Tokyo's daily tally has surpassed 400. The figure is nearly 100 more than the 367 cases reported on Thursday.
A district court has recognized for the first time people who were exposed to radioactive rain immediately after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 as "hibakusha," or sufferers of the bombing.
In 2015, a total of 84 plaintiffs, including local residents aged 75 to 96 and bereaved family members, filed a lawsuit against Hiroshima City and Hiroshima Prefecture.
The Japanese government will go ahead with plans to ease restrictions on large events on Friday despite a surge in coronavirus cases in parts of the country, including Tokyo.
The government is raising the maximum attendance at spectator events from 1,000 to 5,000. Daily new cases continue to climb in Tokyo. The capital recorded 224 infections on Thursday, its highest daily total to date.
Japan has asked the United States to extradite two Americans who are under arrest for allegedly helping former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn to flee Japan while on bail.
US authorities arrested Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, in May for their alleged role in Ghosn's escape to Lebanon on a private jet.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it has confirmed 60 new cases of coronavirus in the capital on Sunday. The figure is the largest since the state of emergency was lifted on May 25 in the capital.
Tokyo authorities say the infected people are in their teens to their 70s, with some ranging as high as 90 years and older. They add that people in their 20s and 30s account for three out of four of the newly confirmed cases.
Japanese health authorities say more than 80 people have been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus on Sunday so far, bringing Japan's total to over 1,800.
A low pressure system and a cold air mass brought unseasonal snow to Tokyo on Sunday.
A Japanese official has asked Lebanon's president to cooperate in the case against former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn, who is now in Beirut after skipping bail in Japan.
Japan's State Minister of Justice Hiroyuki Yoshiie spoke with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun and Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm in Beirut on Monday.
A man in his 40s has tested positive for the virus in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. That's the 88th case of infection outside passengers and crew from the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
Earlier, authorities in the southwestern city of Fukuoka said a man in his 60s had also tested positive. He has not been abroad recently and is the first confirmed case in the Kyushu region.
A man in his 60s, who lives in Fukuoka City, has tested positive for the new coronavirus. He's the first person confirmed with the virus in the Kyushu region.
It marks the 85th case of infection in Japan aside from those on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.