Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is arriving in Japan on Tuesday for talks with his counterpart Motegi Toshimitsu. He is also expected to meet Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide the following day.

This will be the first time since the launch of Suga's Cabinet that a high-ranking official from China is coming to Japan.

Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo is visiting a hospital in Tokyo again on Monday. One of his secretaries says it is a follow-up visit scheduled after a one-day checkup Abe underwent a week earlier.

Abe arrived at Keio University Hospital in Shinjuku Ward around 10 a.m.

The mayor of Yoron, a remote island town in southwestern Japan, is urging people to refrain from visiting due to a recent outbreak of the coronavirus.

Yama Motomune spoke to NHK after 34 cases were confirmed in the five days through Sunday. He pointed to the limited medical capacity in Yoron, a popular tourist destination in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Significantly fewer people than last weekend were seen in the coastal Shonan Area of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on Saturday.

Despite calls to stay home, roads and beaches were packed with visitors including surfers last Sunday. The crowds prompted the prefectural government and the City of Fujisawa to repeatedly urge people not to visit.