Studio Ghibli producer Suzuki Toshio has released a video message for children who are staying at home due to school closures.
Schools in Japan as well as all over the world have been closed in an effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. To cheer up those children staying at home, the Nagoya Board of Education launched a special website.
Japan's Defense Ministry plans to draw up procedures in the event Self-Defense Force pilots encounter unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
The US Defense Department on Monday released videos of what it claims to be UFOs racing through the sky.
The Japanese government plans to quickly draw up an emergency stimulus package to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The package will include cash handouts to struggling households and will be on a larger scale than similar measures taken during the 2008 global financial crisis.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the government will quickly draw up legislation to prepare for a worst-case scenario involving the new coronavirus outbreak.
Abe spoke to an Upper House committee on Monday about the request he had made to shut down schools across Japan from Monday until the start of the spring break.