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The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday said that 57 new cases of Covid-19 infections had been confirmed in the capital, the highest single-day count since the state of emergency was lifted on ... ( read original story ...)

Japan wants to usher in a new era of high-speed public transport with magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains, but the billion-dollar mammoth project for the first Tokyo-Nagoya line ... ( read original story ...)

Central Japan Railway Co is expected to announce soon a decision to delay its planned opening in 2027 of a high-speed maglev train line between Tokyo and Nagoya, sources familiar with the matter say, ... ( read original story ...)

Two 13-year-old girls were hit and killed by an express train in Yokohama on Friday night. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:35 p.m. at Futamagawa Station on the Sotetsu Line in ... ( read original story ...)

Only 3% of this city's households had received the Japanese government's 100,000-yen per person novel coronavirus crisis relief handout as of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's plan to connect its three major economic centers of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with just an hour's train ride has taken a major step back. Twice as fast as Japan's famed bullet ... ( read original story ...)

Setback expected after local governor rejects approving the start of preparatory construction work, citing environmental concerns. ( read original story ...)

A post on social media makes the claim that in Japan “looters and rioters” are sprayed with an indelible blue dye so they can be later identified by law enforcement. While the photograph that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's plan to connect its three major economic centers of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with just an hour's train ride has taken a major step back. Twice as fast as Japan's famed bullet ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's defense minister Taro Kono told reporters that the belligerence from Pyongyang was a diversionary tactic from the spread of the coroanvirus and the leader's health. ( read original story ...)

Summer Olympic Games were pushed back to next year because of the coronavirus. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio spoke with the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, about how the city is preparing, and why Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Construction work at a section in the prefecture has been delayed by local concerns over the rail project's impact on a local river. ( read original story ...)

SHIZUOKA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Central Japan Railway Co.'s plan to open a high-speed maglev train line between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027 was thrown into doubt Friday, as Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu ... ( read original story ...)

Day care centers for the elderly are one key example. After clusters of COVID-19 infections were reported at some such facilities in Nagoya in March, the Nagoya Municipal Government requested that ... ( read original story ...)

The $28-million modifications underway at Yokohama will clear and reinforce Izumo ’s deck in order to transform the vessel from a helicopter carrier into a light aircraft carrier capable of supporting ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditions of the feudal martial arts agents. The 45 ... ( read original story ...)