Princess Aiko, the daughter of Japan's Emperor and Empress, has attended her graduation ceremony at Gakushuin Girls' Senior High School in Tokyo.
The princess was wearing a facemask as she appeared at the school on Sunday for a scaled-down ceremony amid the spread of the new coronavirus.
The organizers of Japan's annual spring invitational high school baseball tournament have canceled this year's event amid the spread of the new coronavirus.
The organizers planned to hold the popular event at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, without spectators in response to the outbreak.
The closure of schools across Japan to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading has made childcare facilities busier.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested local governments to temporarily close schools from Monday until the start of the spring break in late March.
Children in a Japanese city gathered on Sunday ahead of the urgent school closure requested by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
Bungo-Ono city in the southwestern Prefecture of Oita has decided to shut down elementary and junior high schools starting on Monday.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked for understanding regarding the government's request to temporarily close schools around the country.
He made the remarks in a news conference on Saturday to explain his commitment to containing the spread of the new coronavirus.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold a news conference on Saturday to explain his plan to shut down schools across the country in an effort to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
The Japanese government on Friday asked elementary, junior, senior high and other schools to close from Monday until the spring holidays in late March.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the government will push forward with its plan to temporarily close schools and will not hesitate to take the necessary steps to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.
The government decided on Thursday to request the closure of all elementary, junior and senior high schools and schools for students with special needs from Monday.
There's concern and confusion over the Japanese prime minister's plan to shut down the nation's schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. More than 12 million students could be kept home starting next week. Parents scrambles to figure out what to do with their kids.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe effectively asked all elementary, junior high, senior high schools, and special-needs schools to start their spring holidays from Monday instead of late March. This essentially shutters schools for weeks.
A teacher in her 60s at a public junior high school east of Tokyo has been confirmed to be infected with the virus. She showed symptoms of nausea while teaching in Chiba prefecture .
The mayor of Chiba city says the school will be closed until next Wednesday. The teacher has no record of overseas travel in the past 2 weeks and is not known to have been in contact with an infected person.
The Japanese government has decided it will not to give subsidies this fiscal year ending March to a university where a large number of foreign students have gone missing.
Tokyo University and Graduate School of Social Welfare has lost contact with more than 1,600 foreign students, including enrollees from Vietnam and Nepal, over the past three years.