The number of suicides in Japan rose for a fourth straight month in October.

The National Police Agency says the number of people who took their lives last month was 2,153, up 39.9 percent from a year earlier. The monthly total is the highest in the past five years.

Nissan has issued yet another recall for certain Altima models in North America over the hood latch issue, the fourth for those who are still counting.

A fourth passenger from the cruise ship Diamond Princess docked at the port of Yokohama has died from the new coronavirus.

Sources close to the matter say the octogenarian was an inpatient.

Officials of Japan's foreign ministry say the next chartered flight to bring Japanese evacuees from China's Hubei Province is likely to be sent late this week.

The government has brought back 565 Japanese so far on three chartered flights from Wuhan, which is the center of the new coronavirus outbreak.