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As COVID-19 numbers surge amid murky data disclosure, Hirofumi Yoshimura is gaining support for legal power to inspect and punish entertainment firms. ( read original story ...)

Case numbers are climbing fast, with virus clusters in nursing homes, schools and elsewhere. But fingers are being pointed at Japan’s so-called hostess bars. ( read original story ...)

Case numbers are climbing fast, with virus clusters in nursing homes, schools and elsewhere. But fingers are being pointed at Japan’s so-called hostess bars. ( read original story ...)

I was reminded of that while reading Amy Stanley’s enthralling portrait of an intrepid 19th-century Japanese woman and the city she loved. Stanley, a professor of history at Northwestern University, ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will sit empty Friday -- the day thousands were supposed to descend on the venue for the 2020 Summer Games -- marking the first time since World War II that the event will not ... ( read original story ...)

A new electronic warfare unit in southern Japan will coordinate with an older system to the north to increase Japan's defensive capabilities in the event of an invasion on the Senkaku Islands. ( read original story ...)

When I met him on a sweltering afternoon earlier this week he was still hard at it in a converted factory building in a north Tokyo suburb, flying high into the air, spinning and tumbling on a massive ... ( read original story ...)

When I met him on a sweltering afternoon earlier this week he was still hard at it in a converted factory building in a north Tokyo suburb, flying high into the air, spinning and tumbling on a massive ... ( read original story ...)

Two decades after Japan rolled out an ambitious plan to go digital, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the government's deeply rooted technological shortcomings as ministries remain stuck in a ... ( read original story ...)

The Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants overpowered the Chunichi Dragons 6-1 on Thursday, with Kazuma Okamoto driving in the go-ahead run as part of a fi ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's capital has reported 366 new coronavirus cases, Yuriko Koike, the governor of Tokyo, said on Thursday, a new daily record fuelling fears of a second round of infections. As Japan began a ... ( read original story ...)

The opening ceremony of the postponed Tokyo Olympics should have taken place this evening and what was always going to be a melancholy week for its organisers has turned out to be even more depressing ... ( read original story ...)

Thursday marks one year until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. TODAY senior international correspondent Keir Simmons reports on how the city and ... ( read original story ...)

The son of former Nissan Motor Co chairman Carlos Ghosn made about $500,000 in cryptocurrency payments to one of the two Massachusetts men who helped him escape from Japan, U.S. prosecutors ... ( read original story ...)

As fans of the series may know, Inuyasha changes form on the New Moon every month. The cafés offer variations on Inuyasha's beef sandwich and cranberry soda float on certain days. Check the individual ... ( read original story ...)

July 24, 2020 would have marked the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics. The coronavirus pandemic led to the postponement of the Games until 2021, leaving thousands of athletes in limbo. Nathan Adrian, ... ( read original story ...)