By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The "Roulette Gang" is back in town, preying on empty expressways in Tokyo after dark when few motorists venture out due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Authorities in communities on the Pacific coast of Japan are woefully ill prepared to evacuate residents in the event of massive tsunami spawned by a megaquake, a…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun WASHINGTON--In a U.S. District Court in Virginia in November 2019, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for national security remained in disbelief…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Golden Week, a highly anticipated holiday period when millions of Japanese go traveling, was a nonstarter April 25 as people heeded calls to stay home because of …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The Japanese practice of requiring documents to be stamped with an official "hanko" seal is posing a problem for companies endeavoring to comply with teleworking …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Worn to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, face masks that were discarded and now litter the streets pose a potential public health hazard to others. A…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Animals, household items and even the Beatles’ Abbey Road album are being used to inform people about how close they can safely come together in this age of social…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Tsunami even more powerful than those that left nearly 20,000 people dead in the 2011 disaster could strike coastal areas of northern Iwate Prefecture if an off-t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The new coronavirus pandemic has produced a double whammy of dwindling demand and labor shortages for Japan’s cattle farmers, and some say long-term government as…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Sake drinkers at first see only a cherry tree with empty branches adorning their cup. But as cold sake is poured, they watch cherry flowers appear and bloom one b…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun With attention in Japan focused on the public at large trying to protect themselves from the new coronavirus pandemic, one group of people has largely fallen thro…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun In early March, phones started ringing off the hook at a hospital in a residential area of Tokyo’s Suginami Ward. They were all requests from public health center…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Unexpected maintenance delayed the departure of a private chartered plane carrying 110 Japanese passengers from Pakistan. Then bad weather hit, forcing the passen…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun So many lives forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic. This even extends to funeral services for the deceased, robbing families and friends of those precious …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Males and those aged 70 or older account for the most deaths from complications of COVID-19 in Tokyo, an analysis by The Asahi Shimbun shows.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Many hospitals and service providers for the elderly across Japan have reported cluster infections of the novel coronavirus, raising concerns about the health and…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will issue another public appeal to halt novel coronavirus infections, asking for commuter numbers to fall by at least 70 percent in pre…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Acclaimed film director Nobuhiko Obayashi, dubbed the “cinematic magician” for his lyrical and playful style of making films, died of lung cancer at his Tokyo hom…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on April 10 announced the list of businesses ranging from movie theaters to pachinko parlors that will be asked to close in the capita…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A homeless man in his 60s sat on a flattened cardboard box in a park near the Sumidagawa river in Tokyo and covered his mouth with a dirty face mask.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japan added 361 new coronavirus cases on April 7, pushing the national total over the 5,000 mark. The total figure reached 5,179 cases of people infected with COV…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Even legendary samurai and "rakugoka" comedic storytellers on Japanese TV are bowing to the novel coronavirus outbreak, as highly rated shows are being delayed an…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun TOKUSHIMA--A 36-year-old political newcomer with multiple sclerosis ousted an incumbent almost twice her age in the mayoral election here on April 5, becoming Jap…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NANTO, Toyama Prefecture--Artisans here have nearly completed a 660-kilogram wooden framed motto of Sensoji temple in Tokyo that resembles the one that was incine…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun More than 300 new coronavirus infections were confirmed around Japan on April 3 for the first time.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Life on Mars? Planet Earth has turned up tantalizing evidence that there could be after researchers found dense concentrations of microbial cells in cracks of anc…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NAHA—Japan’s first island-patrolling police force kicked off here on April 1 to protect the nation’s far-flung territories against invasions and illegal occupatio…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SHANGHAI--To embattled residents of Wuhan, blogger Fang Fang was nothing short of a hero. But to the authorities, she was a disruptive influence because of her ho…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japanese Olympic organizers got their wish granted with the new schedule for the delayed Tokyo Games. But their relief will likely be short-lived when they try to…