Japan's leading steelmaker is showing signs of a continuing recovery in the global economy. Nippon Steel says it will restart another furnace that's been offline due to the pandemic slowdown.

Executives say they plan to fire up a blast furnace in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo by the end of January.

Demand for business jets has been expanding as a way to transport small groups of people while reducing the risk of catching the coronavirus.

The trend comes as Japan has resumed business travel to and from China, Singapore, and other parts of the world.

Japan's main governing Liberal Democratic Party has rejected an opposition demand to question former prime minister Abe Shinzo in the Diet over costs for annual parties.

Media outlets have reported that Abe's office allegedly shouldered part of the costs for parties at hotels in Tokyo held on the eve of Abe's annual cherry blossom viewing events.

Belarusians living in Japan held a protest in Tokyo calling for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko.

Unrest continues in Belarus as massive protests have swept the country for more than two months against suspected poll rigging in the August presidential election.

Bored at home during the pandemic lockdown? If you are, you’re not alone, and it seems that Sony knows this too because according to separate reports from Bloomberg and Nikkei, it seems that Sony will be boosting the production of its PS5 by a huge margin in order to meet anticipated demand for their next-gen console.

The PS5 is expected to be released this year and instead of producing 5-6 million units, which is what some analysts have predicted, the reports are claiming that Sony might produce several million more where it could result in an initial production reaching as many as 9 to 10 million units of the PS5 console.