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Tokyo on Tuesday said it will move away from numerical targets to contain COVID-19 and rely more on the advice of a committee of experts, to try to control the novel coronavirus and avoid another ... ( read original story ...)

The merger between online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. is getting pushed back to later than the scheduled October date because of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese pensioner forcibly sterilised as a 14-year-old under a now-defunct eugenics law failed Tuesday in a legal bid for $280,000 in state compensation. According to local media, Tokyo District ... ( read original story ...)

Pacific region. Located in Tokyo’s upscale Roppongi Hills development, it is also the brand’s first flagship in Japan and its largest store to date in Asia. The opening was originally planned for ... ( read original story ...)

The new standards do not specify a threshold number of new cases that would trigger a possible return to restrictions ... ( read original story ...)

Nanami Kodaira hasn't worked since her hair salon in Tokyo cut its hours in April in response to the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo confirmed 54 COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, recording more than 50 cases for the fifth straight day, local media reported, while neighboring Yokoham ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen told reporters she was "very disappointed" by China's imposition of the law, which proved that the "one country, two systems" formula, which Beijing ... ( read original story ...)

Apple supplier Japan Display Inc reported on Tuesday its first quarterly net profit in more than three years, boosted by the sale of its stake in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel ... ( read original story ...)

League resumes this Saturday, Socceroos goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak will have more reason than most to be celebrating. ( read original story ...)

Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida told shareholders Monday he is giving up half his pay after the Japanese automaker sank into the red amid plunging sales and plant closures in Spain and Indonesia. ( read original story ...)

This mix of great novels – featuring Murakami and Murata – uncovers the mystery of Japan in a way ‘documentarists about families living with robots’ never will ... ( read original story ...)

Economists forecast the unemployment rate in Japan will hit four percent by the end of the year, as the tourism and hospitality sectors suffer from border closures and people staying at home because ... ( read original story ...)

Absence of tourists during coronavirus pandemic has led Nara’s revered deer back to traditional diets and better health ... ( read original story ...)

The imagined office in the video, like tens of thousands of its real-life equivalents around Japan, appears carefully prepared for the great return to work and new normal of life under Covid-19. The ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's top government spokesman said on Tuesday China's move to pass national security legislation for Hong Kong, if confirmed, was "extremely regrettable" and undermined credibility in the 'one ... ( read original story ...)