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Japan’s economy has slipped from sales-tax hangover into deep recession, official data is set to show tomorrow, with worse to come even as coronavirus restrictions on activity are gradually lifted. ( read original story ...)

The head of the World Health Organization said Saturday it will not be easy to make next year’s Tokyo Olympics a safe global gathering after the pandemic. Speaking at a joint news conference with the ... ( read original story ...)

The Diamond Princess cruise ship in the port of Yokohama on March 25. Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via The Diamond Princess cruise ship is traveling to Malaysia after being docked in Yokohama, Japan for ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the World Health Organization said Saturday it will not be easy to make next year's Tokyo Olympics a safe global gathering after the pandemic. Around 11,000 athletes from more than 200 ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- The Diamond Princess, a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship which was quarantined in the port of Yokohama in February, left for Malay ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the World Health Organization says it won't be easy to make next year's Tokyo Olympics a safe global gathering after the pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing like never before the severe disparities in how Japanese couples divide household work. ( read original story ...)

The fugitive former Nissan Chief Carlos Ghosn was banned from leaving Lebanon, the country he fled to after a daring escape from Japan. On Wednesday, in his first public appearance since the escape, ... ( read original story ...)

Tetsuko Itagaki, who was a secretary for five AP Tokyo bureau chiefs from 1958 until she retired in 1989, has died in Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

The great ‘layover’ we’re all experiencing reminds the writer of the epiphany he had while killing time in a small town in Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Cabinet Secretariat, the U.S. National Security Council and the U.S. Commerce Department are expected to participate and could hold their first meeting by the end of the year, the Yomiuri said ... ( read original story ...)

The former Queensland Reds coach, now at Kintetsu Liners, has witnessed first-hand the rise of rugby in Japan since the World Cup. ( read original story ...)

Ikko Ehode Arimoto, 17, is set to sign for Spanish club Villarreal and must also pick which international side he wants to play for. ( read original story ...)

At TPG, we paused traveling to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Local and federal governments around the globe are now debating the appropriate levels of isolation and distancing. Before booking that ... ( read original story ...)

Almost two months after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said Friday he still could not give an estimate of how much the one-year delay will cost. ( read original story ...)

Most of the money will go toward helping the International Olympic Committee mount an Olympics one year later than planned — something it's never done before. ( read original story ...)