By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Teachers and parents were thrown into confusion by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s sudden and unprecedented request for all schools to close from March 2 to prevent t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Legendary “Astro Boy” manga author Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) has been given a new life via an artificial intelligence program that studied his works and came up wi…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A former athlete will be on the sidelines when the Olympic torch relay kicks off in a prefecture where she rose to stardom and felt she had lied for years to the …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NAHA--Tomoe Akamine took two pieces of advice from her grandson on how to spread the word about the situation in Okinawa Prefecture: Use Twitter to send your mess…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun BEIJING--Hospital chief Zhang Dingyu didn’t think anything was abnormal when seven patients were admitted in late December with pneumonia. But within days, as pat…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KUMAMOTO--From one famed novelist to another, Haruki Murakami revealed that some of the funds he helped raise for recovery from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes went…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A sure sign that winter has ended emerged Feb. 22 with “haru-ichiban,” the first warm spring winds in the Kanto region. This year’s haru-ichiban arrived 15 days e…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The health ministry on Feb. 20 urged the public and event organizers to rethink the necessity of holding large-scale events due to the risk of spreading the deadly…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun YOKOHAMA--Two Japanese passengers of the coronavirus-infested Diamond Princess cruise ship died after being infected with the disease, which hit two more governme…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A professor of infectious diseases said “inadequate” quarantine measures aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship have created conditions that are scarier than w…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SETOUCHI, Okayama Prefecture--A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to obtain the long blade once wielded by one of Japan's most powerful warlords was a battle in itse…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Coronavirus fears have forced the last-minute cancellation of Naruhito’s first public birthday celebration as emperor at Tokyo's Imperial Palace on Feb. 23.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Some U.S. citizens stranded aboard a cruise ship in Yokohama while undergoing quarantine for the coronavirus are declining to board a U.S. government charter flig…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Got the sniffles and feeling out of sorts? It may not mean you have the coronavirus that is beginning to rage across Japan.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The government again changed its policy and will allow some elderly passengers to leave the Diamond Princess, a quarantined cruise ship infested with the new coro…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun BEIJING--Citizens here are praising a Chinese poem written on relief supply boxes sent from Japan as a sign of heartfelt support for China in its struggle to cope…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A Japanese research team has "seen the light" and is utilizing infrared wavelengths to generate electricity, an untapped energy source that accounts for nearly ha…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Passengers confined to quarters on the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess are at the end of their tether--and their hopes of a quick end to their nightmare …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SEOUL--While the producers of "Parasite" celebrated four Academy Awards on Feb. 9, tenants residing in gloomy half-basement apartments here like in the movie did …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun TANEGASHIMA ISLAND, Kagoshima Prefecture--The H2A No. 41 rocket was successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on Feb. 9, putting an information gath…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun China started getting antsy when Japan arranged a fourth charter flight to rescue its nationals in Hubei province, where the coronavirus is raging, because it fea…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun BEIJING--In a new "war" being raged in China, police burst into a farmer's home in a dramatic raid that accuses the "offender" of putting lives at risk.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun FUKUOKA--The Fukuoka High Court on Feb. 5 overturned a lower court decision that found an accused rapist innocent and handed the 44-year-old company executive a f…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun After showing symptoms of coronavirus infection for a week, a woman in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak in China, was finally tested at one of the overcrowded…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun BEIJING--Companies, schools and government offices in China have adopted a “zero contact” policy to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, leading to precise …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Low-altitude test flights over central Tokyo started on Feb. 2 for passenger planes landing at Haneda Airport, drawing noise complaints and raising safety concern…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Three repatriated Japanese from Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak in China, have been confirmed to be infected by the virus, bringing the number of ca…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Rare photos have emerged of Shuri-jo castle in Okinawa Prefecture taken about a century ago, casting a valuable insight into how the structures looked before they…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Following numerous warnings from labor standards inspectors for having staff work long hours, Nikko Toshogu shrine here said it will op…