The number of coronavirus cases in Japan has ticked up to 1,000 as of 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, local time. That figure includes 706 people from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. The vessel is moored at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo.
The tally is based on data compiled by the health ministry and local governments.
Thirteen crew members of a freighter are missing after the vessel collided with a fishing boat and sank off the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori on Saturday.
Coast Guard officials say the 1,989-ton cargo vessel, "Guoxing-1 ," notified them that the ship was taking on water after a collision with a fishing boat.
About 100 more crewmembers who tested negative for the new coronavirus will disembark from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship on Friday.
They are among the roughly 150 crewmembers who remain on board the ship docked at Yokohama Port, south of Tokyo. Many of them are non-Japanese nationals.
Crew members aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked near Tokyo finally began disembarking on Thursday.
Those without symptoms will be quarantined and undergo medical checkups for 14 days.
Japan's health ministry says crew members who tested negative for the new coronavirus have begun disembarking from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo.
The crew members were transferred to a government-designated facility in Saitama Prefecture on Thursday. Officials say it will take several days before all 240 crew members leave the ship.
Japan's Defense Minister Taro Kono says a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer will start operating in the Middle East as soon as Wednesday.
The government dispatched the destroyer Takanami and aircraft to the Middle East for an intelligence gathering operation to safeguard commercial ships with links to Japan. The Takanami left the Yokosuka base, near Tokyo, on February 2.
Japan's health minister says 28 passengers have developed fevers or other symptoms after disembarking from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Katsunobu Kato said at a Diet committee meeting on Tuesday that the passengers are among those who have responded to his ministry's follow-up surveys.
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.
A woman in her 60s in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, has tested positive for the new coronavirus after disembarking from the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo.
Last Saturday, the woman on the Diamond Princess tested negative for the virus.
The last group of passengers to test negative and show no symptoms for the new coronavirus have disembarked from a quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo.
A man in his 70s said, " I just want to sit around and take a bath for now."
NHK has learned that a large number of health ministry officials who boarded the cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo were allowed to return to their workplace without being tested for the new coronavirus.
As of Friday, 634 passengers and crewmembers on the Diamond Princess had tested positive.
We start with the latest on the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo.
The last group of passengers who tested negative for the coronavirus disembarked Friday from the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo...two days after their two-week quarantine period ended.
A third group of passengers are disembarking from the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo.
More than 700 people have left the ship since their two-week quarantine period ended on Wednesday. Officials hope to see off another 450 passengers by the end of Friday.
A third group of passengers from the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo are disembarking.
More than 700 people have left the ship since their two-week quarantine period ended on Wednesday.