The Japanese Government is offering the anti-influenza drug Avigan for free to countries seeking to treat Covid-19 coronavirus patients. The flu drug Avigan will be made...
Despite its proximity to China, Japan hasn’t seen the massive outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus that has shut down Europe and North America. What are the...
The health ministry confirmed the case was the first in Japan where a patient tested positive for coronavirus for a second time. Especially after being discharged...
Dozens more people on the cruise ship Diamond Princess in Japan have been quarantined after tested positive for the coronavirus. Thousands of passengers remained confined to...
Deaths from the coronavirus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in Thailand...
Japanese health authorities have quarantined the cruise ship Diamond Princess carrying 3,500 people over the treat of the coronavirus. Testing was ordered on the passengers after...
Japanese lawyer Takashi Takano said on his blog Carlos Ghosn was questioned an average of seven hours a day without a lawyer present.
It is unclear how Ghosn avoided the tight surveillance he was under in Japan and showed up in Lebanon. An escape that caused a huge loss...
The storm, which the government said could be the strongest to hit Tokyo, Japan since 1958. It brought record-breaking rainfall in many areas, including the popular...
There have also been reports of bad behavior, including tourists chasing geisha's and their apprentices with cameras in the streets of Kyodo.
Japan has raised defense spending by a tenth over the past seven years to counter military advances by China and Pyongyang. Including defenses against North Korean...
TOKYO – A knife-wielding psychopath carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” brutally attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a...
TOKYO – Faced with a shrinking workforce, Japan has made it easier for migrant workers to get a visa. Conservative critics are concerned about the impact...
TOKYO – A 116-year-old Japanese woman who loves playing the board game Othello was honored Saturday as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records....
TOKYO – The “World’s Oldest Man” Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, died on...
TOKYO – Japan has decided to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission in a bid to resume commercial whaling for the first time in about...
TOKYO – Japan on Tuesday approved plans to convert two ships into aircraft carriers –the nation’s first since World War II — as it tries...
TOKYO – Japan is apparently considering tripling its original F-35 order “to respond to China in the Pacific,” a senior defense official in the Japanese...
TOKYO – A powerful typhoon is bearing down on the Japanese archipelago after passing near Okinawa on Saturday, with forecasters warning of strong winds, high waves...
Thailand and Japan have swapped their top positions as the countries Chinese travellers felt comfortable visiting in the latest survey by Hotels.com. The survey released...
