By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Memorial ceremonies in August to mark the 75th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be sharply scaled back because of the novel …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Blue Impulse, the Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF)'s aerial acrobatics team, flew in formation over central Tokyo on May 29 to show appreciation for the hard efforts…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Tower resumed operations on May 28 for the first time in 50 days after closing because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun For many thousands of people, the morning commute May 26 was just like old times--before the new coronavirus hit. An express train on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line w…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Hana Kimura wanted to be loved. Instead, she became the target of relentless online bullying over an incident on a reality TV show.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun TATEYAMA, Toyama Prefecture--A path that runs through towering walls of snow, part of the popular Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, will reopen to tourists on June 1,…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun ISTANBUL--Suspicious money transfers totaling about 33 million yen ($306,600) were made to a senior official with a Turkish jet operator in connection with Carlos…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SENDAI--This northeastern city boasts the largest entertainment district in the Tohoku region but nightclubs here are far from hopping like they used to, even tho…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun OSAKA--A life-size wooden statue of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered at Omiyajinja shrine here, providing a clue to how people worshipped him du…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japan is close to lifting the state of emergency over the novel coronavirus for three prefectures in the Kansai region as the ratio of new infections there has fa…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun ANA Holdings Inc. resumed air cargo service connecting Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture and Wuhan city in China on May 19 following a lull in economic activity …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Only five new COVID-19 infections were confirmed in Tokyo on May 19, marking two straight weeks the daily tally in the capital has been under 50, according to sou…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun To protect Japan from emerging threats, the Self-Defense Forces is going boldly where it’s never gone before: outer space.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Going out on days when PM2.5 air pollutants are up raises the risk of cardiac arrest for people, including those with chronic cardiac disease, research by scienti…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Descendants of a business entrepreneur who died close to a century ago were stunned to discover that an ancestor’s last wish to be mummified was carried out.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's much-derided emergency care package of face masks for every household to mitigate the effects of the new coronavirus pandemic is in ta…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japan's long-delayed nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, passed an initial safety inspection by the country's nuclear watchdog agen…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The excavation of ruins of the last castle built by the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is being hailed as the greatest discovery in Japan of this century.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The novel coronavirus has shattered a particular type of bar in Japan, disrupting a social form of entertainment described as vital for communities and leading to…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SASEBO, Nagasaki Prefecture--The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s destroyer Kirisame set sail on May 10 to relatively little fanfare and an immediate two-week stay n…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun In the court of public opinion, more than 4.7 million tweets and retweets, including those from celebrities, are protesting a revision bill allowing the Cabinet t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A company in central Japan that manufactures amusement machines installed at pachinko parlors has stepped out of its comfort zone to produce plastic face guards t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Shinkansen ridership nosedived 95 percent during Japan’s Golden Week holiday period that ended May 6 compared to a year earlier as most travelers stayed home due …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--When children shouted about “flying cotton” at her day care center, Mineko Yonaha, the head of the facility, immediately warned them.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prefectures with relatively low numbers of novel coronavirus infections are starting to scale back their requests to residents to practice social distancing and t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s mixed message in extending the nationwide state of emergency reflects his attempt to heed the advice of health experts while addressin…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of Japan’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, on May 4 listed the criteria for lifting the state of emergency…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A popular 54-year-old Tokyo man had a lot to live for operating his pork cutlet restaurant and being chosen as a local torch runner for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun MATSUMOTO, Nagano Prefecture--Kamikochi, a scenic highland valley in the Hida mountain range here and gateway to the Northern Japan Alps, would probably be one of…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Artificial intelligence robots are set to start working from May 1 at two Tokyo hotels accommodating patients infected with the novel coronavirus who have mild or…