The resumption of business travel between Japan and China is making travel agencies in China busy with inquiries from local businesses about trips to Japan.

On Monday, the two countries eased entry restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing businesspeople to make trips for both short- and long-term stays. This will allow for business activities on a limited scope even during a 14-day quarantine period.

The operator of a storage facility in northern Japan is making arrangements with power companies to resume accepting shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessed in Britain.

NHK has learned that Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited has started talks with utility companies to accept the nuclear waste again in the business year that begins next April.

Cruise ship operations have resumed at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo, after an eight-month suspension due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Japan's largest cruise ship, Asuka II, left the port on Monday with about 330 passengers on a four-day round trip to Shimizu Port in Shizuoka Prefecture.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has decided to resume activities in Vietnam, having deemed the coronavirus situation to be relatively calm in the country.

Flights between Japan and Vietnam have already resumed. The agency plans to send eight of its members from late November.

A UNESCO World Heritage site in western Japan has reopened to visitors after it was damaged by a typhoon.

Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, off Nagasaki Prefecture was once home to Hashima Coal Mine. The site is recognized as contributing to Japan's industrial revolution.

Japan and South Korea have agreed to reopen business and other travel between the two countries on Thursday.

Japan's Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu on Tuesday announced the bilateral agreement as part of efforts to ease coronavirus entry restrictions.

Japan is expected to agree with South Korea to start allowing people to travel between the two countries for business purposes as early as this week.

The Japanese government is gradually easing entry restrictions that have been put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

NHK has learned that British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca plans to resume clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine in Japan soon, following their resumption in Britain.

Sources close to the firm say the trials will restart this week at the earliest at multiple locations in Japan, with about 250 people aged 18 or older taking part.

Japanese automakers are moving beyond the plant shutdowns stemming from the coronavirus. They've brought most of their overseas facilities back online as they gear up for recovering demand.

The companies have been gradually reopening their plants mainly in Europe and the US since May.

Official events have resumed at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the first time in about three months, with measures in place to prevent coronavirus infections.

On Wednesday, Emperor Naruhito received credentials from the new ambassadors of Tonga and Rwanda. It was his first ceremonial duty at the palace since late March.

An evacuation order issued for a town devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, has been partially lifted to allow for the operation of a railway along the pacific coast.

A gate installed near Yonomori Station in Tomioka Town was opened on Tuesday at 6 a.m.

m-flo have resumed their "loves" project after 12 years. As the first part of this project, they will digitally release a new song titled "tell me tell me" on March 6.

m-flo's "loves" project is a project in which the group collaborates with various artists. From 2004 to 2008, they have collaborated with a total of 41 artists.