By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Health experts warn that the rapidly rising death toll from COVID-19 could worsen as the continuing increase in seriously ill patients has now forced overrun hosp…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gained a new title, general secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), reinstating the highest post previously …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun TACHIARAI, Fukuoka Prefecture--When demand suddenly started pouring in for a sake mostly popular with connoisseurs, Tadatsugu Inoue at the Mii no Kotobuki brewery…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The health ministry plans to introduce penalties for those confirmed with COVID-19 but who refuse to be hospitalized.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga overrode coronavirus-prevention plans to impose a blanket ban on entry into Japan and decided to maintain eased immigration rules fo…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A Nepalese man who lives in Kanagawa Prefecture tested positive for the novel coronavirus, but after some misunderstandings, he decided against self-isolation and…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japanese drug companies are moving at an “unprecedented” pace to develop COVID-19 vaccines, but their foreign rivals have already won the race.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japan is close to suspending relaxed entry restrictions for foreign nationals under business travel and other agreements with 11 countries and regions, including …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun At first, noted contemporary artist Akira Yamaguchi had no desire to put his talent to work to promote the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. “I did not want to be i…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun At Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, many of the sparse number of visitors on New Year's Day said they prayed that the novel coronavirus would go away quickly.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Emperor Naruhito delivered a video message for the first time to address the nation and mark the new year by saying he prayed that 2021 will prove to be a sea cha…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KOBE--It’s been nearly 80 years since a “visa for life” helped young Jewish refugee Berl Schor escape from the horrors of Nazi Germany and make his way to this we…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Charred work-related documents dated Dec. 2, 2012, remain stuck fast to a young woman's bag.