Six railway operators in the Tokyo metropolitan area say they will not run services late into the night on New Year's Eve and early on New Year's Day due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The companies include East Japan Railway and Tokyo Metro.

A group of fishermen has asked a court to issue an injunction to stop the government from conducting a drilling survey around an island in southwestern Japan. The Defense Ministry plans to relocate US military exercises to the island.

The ministry intends to build a Self Defense Force facility on Kagoshima Prefecture's Mageshima island in order to relocate the takeoff and landing exercises of US carrier-borne planes there. The ministry is about to start conducting the drilling survey at 37 locations east of the island on the seabed.