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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday expanded a state of emergency due to the coronavirus to cover the whole country to stem the growing spread of the disease. The declaration allows ... ( read original story ...)

The declaration amounted to an acknowledgment that his efforts to keep the country running normally had exposed it to a potential sharp rise in coronavirus infections. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will donate two million face masks to its former colonial master Japan, which has been hard hit by the outbreak of the new coronavirus, as part of the is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - is preparing to expand the state of emergency that Japan has declared for seven of its 47 prefectures so far to the rest of the nation in a bid to contain the coronavirus, the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government will convene a key panel of medics Thursday to advise on its state of emergency over the coronavirus, as local media reported the prime minister would expand the measures to cover ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is preparing to expand the state of emergency that he has declared for seven of Japan's 47 prefectures to the rest of the nation in a bid to contain the coronavirus, local ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reportedly planning to extend Japan's State of Emergency to the entire country, roughly one month after he insisted the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games would go on as planned ... ( read original story ...)

Sapporo – Hokkaido Railway Co. plans to put some 1,450 of its workforce, or 20 percent of all employees including contract workers, on leave to offset growing loses from the coronavirus pandemic. “We ... ( read original story ...)

With schools closed due to the fallout from the spread of the novel coronavirus, Aichi Prefectural Police has already confirmed three incide ... ( read original story ...)

The municipal government here asked a local day care center to refrain from informing parents and guardians about a worker who tested posi･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

For someone like Sumako Furihata, who owns two small restaurants in Tokyo’s Akasaka nightlife district, pandemic has been a nightmare that crushed sales and put her in a difficult situation. Many of ... ( read original story ...)

A corpse has been discovered at an abandoned hotel in this southwestern prefecture which is known online as a haunted spot, after two men ･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Interest rate cuts may do more harm than good to Japan’s economy hit by fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, a senior official said, warning the central bank against pushing rates deeper into ... ( read original story ...)

About 700 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of 14 billion yen ($130 million) was seized by customs authorities from cargo on a ship docked in Yokohama Port earlier this year, sources ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's decision to distribute reusable cloth face masks to about 50 million households is backfiring, as users complain the masks are too small and are proving to be a waste of taxpayers' money. ( read original story ...)

We don't expect 400,000 or so people to die. We can stop the spread of this infectious disease if we drastically reduce contact between people," Hiroshi Nishiura, an infectious disease expert on Japan ... ( read original story ...)