A job placement center and a university in Tokyo have agreed to work together to help students from abroad find jobs in Japan.

The Shinjuku Hello Work office and Sophia University reached the first agreement of its kind in the country. About 1,500 foreign students are studying at the university.

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo has started clinical trials of a drug that could possibly treat people infected with the coronavirus.

Nafamostat mesylate is normally used for acute pancreatitis and other diseases that create blood clots. It is marketed under the brand name Futhan.

Tokyo's Keio University Hospital says roughly six percent of its non-coronavirus patients have tested positive for the virus.

Hospital officials say 67 patients underwent pre-surgery or pre-hospitalization screening last week. None of them had coronavirus symptoms, but four of them tested positive.

Kyoto University Hospital in western Japan says it ordered 116 staff members to isolate themselves at home because they dined out or traveled, despite instructions not to do so.

The hospital says at least 44 doctors, 57 trainee doctors, and 15 others were found to have behaved contrary to the hospital's instructions. The staff members were ordered to avoid dining out or drinking alcohol with others, and also to refrain from traveling.

Keio University Hospital in Tokyo says 18 trainee doctors have contracted the coronavirus. The infections came to light after dozens of trainees dined together, despite being repeatedly warned not to.

The hospital says in a statement on its website that one trainee, who completed an internship program in the hospital, initially tested positive on March 31.