Japanese weather officials are calling on people to stay on the highest alert even though Typhoon Haishen, now threatening Japan's southwest, has weakened slightly.
Officials of the Meteorological Agency held a news conference at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has decided to exclude rank-and-file voters from voting in its presidential election. Three likely contenders have emerged…the government's top spokesperson Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide, LDP policy chief Kishida Fumio and the party's former secretary general, Ishiba Shigeru.
Suga is the first to gain support from large party factions, and is expected to announce his candidacy on Wednesday. But so far, he's stayed quiet publically when it comes to his intentions.
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Sources close to the Japanese Prime Minister say he plans to step down to deal with a health problem.
Abe Shinzo is scheduled to hold a news conference later in the day to explain his decision.
The annual bonfire festival in the city of Kyoto was held on a much smaller scale on Sunday to avoid large crowds amid the coronavirus outbreak.
"Gozan Okuribi" takes place on August 16 to send off the ancestral spirits who are believed to return home during the Bon holidays.
This is why it doesn’t really come as a surprise to learn that Microsoft has since announced that they will be shutting down the Cortana apps on both iOS and Android. According to Microsoft, “As we make this shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365, we need to adjust our focus areas of innovation and development to give our customers assistance where they need it most. As a result, we are making changes to some U.S. consumer-centric features and functionalities with lower usage.”
This doesn’t mean that Microsoft is done with Cortana or that they are killing it off entirely. Instead Cortana will continue to live on within iOS and Android, but it will live on by being integrated within Microsoft’s 365 apps, so if you really have to use Cortana, you’ll still be able to access it within these apps.
Data on capital investment by Japanese companies for the January-March period has been revised down, after the impact of the coronavirus pandemic became clearer.
The survey by the Finance Ministry targeted roughly 30,000 firms with capital equivalent to at least 94,000 dollars.
Heavy rain has toppled an ancient cedar tree at a shrine in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.
The 40-meter-tall tree fell over on Saturday at Shinmei Shrine, cutting off power, damaging the roof of a nearby house and blocking a road.
Japan's health minister has indicated the government is considering scaling down its annual ceremony in August commemorating the war-dead.
Kato Katsunobu told reporters on Tuesday that full precautions must be taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
A major Japanese cell-phone carrier has found that trips between prefectures during the holiday period from the end of April to early May were significantly down from last year.
KDDI examined data from users' smartphones for the spring holiday period that ended on May 6. During this period, people were urged to stay home amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
A major Japanese cell-phone carrier has found that trips between prefectures during the holiday period from the end of April to early May were significantly down from last year.
KDDI examined data from users' smartphones for the spring holiday period that ended on May 6. During this period, people were urged to stay home amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
Global output by eight Japanese auto makers was down more than 20 percent in March as they shut down plants amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Japanese manufacturers produced more than 1,863,000 vehicles last month, down 26 percent from a year earlier.
The number of newly confirmed coronavirus infections in Tokyo fell below 100 on Monday for the second straight day.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials say there were 39. This is the first time since late March that there have been fewer than 40.
The coronavirus pandemic sharply decreased the number of foreigners visiting Japan last month.
Japanese tourism officials say the figure for March was 193,700, down 93 percent from a year earlier.