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Manga, music and even video games: calls from Tokyo's governor for residents to practise social distancing to stem the spread of coronavirus have inspired a slew of viral online tributes. On Twitter, ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese virus expert says he is "pessimistic" that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead as planned next year. ( read original story ...)

A Japanese professor of infectious disease says he is “very pessimistic” the postponed Tokyo Olympics can open in 15 months. “To be honest with you, I don’t think the ... ( read original story ...)

Employees and parents are voicing anger and frustration over white-mask-only rules at some Japanese workplaces and schools, implemented despi ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese professor of infectious disease says he is “very pessimistic” the Tokyo Olympics can be held next year ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike's entreaty to residents to keep away from each other to halt the spread of the coronavirus has inspired a computer game of her navigating through crowds while uttering her ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s exports slumped the most in nearly four years in March as U.S.-bound shipments, including cars, fell at the fastest rate since 2011, highlighting the damage the coronavirus pandemic is ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economic stimulus package will be revised to 117.1 trillion yen ($1.086 trillion) from 108.2 trillion yen, boosted by the expansion of a cash payout scheme aimed at lessening the pain from ... ( read original story ...)

Closed entrance door for coronavirus (COVID-19) contamination control are seen in the hotel in Yokohama, Kanagawa-Prefecture, Japan on Sunday, April 19, 2020. APA Hotel & Resort Yokohama Bay Tower ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s exports fell 11.7% in March from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance (MOF) data showed on Monday, reflecting a sharp drop in external demand due to the coronavirus outbreak. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo may have been lulled into complacency during the weeks when Japan contained the coronavirus while avoiding economically devastating lockdowns, our bureau chief writes. ( read original story ...)

Click here to find out more info. WTA Legends from Martina Hingis to Stefanie Graf were among the retired players whom Roger Federer paid tribute to over the weekend, Naomi Osaka joined the World ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s salarymen and women, the corporate troops who built one of the world’s biggest economies, are struggling with tents, earplugs and wandering toddlers in their hardest battle yet — the home ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese health ministry said Sunday that 568 new cases of the coronavirus were reported the day before, bringing a domestic total to 10,361. ( read original story ...)

South Korea on Sunday reported eight more cases of the coronavirus, the first time a daily increase has dropped to a single digit in about two months. The Korea Centers ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's supermarket employees are being driven to exhaustion from the pressure to keep selling daily necessities and food amid the spread of ･･･ ... ( read original story ...)