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Gun-Wielding Man Arrested after Taking Hostage for 11 Hours in Saitama Pref.

Japan Coronavirus Daily Count Hits Record High for 3rd Consecutive Day

6 Former Fukushima Residents Sue Nuclear Plant Operator over Thyroid Cancer

Russian COVID-19 Vaccines to Be Administered in Japan from Mid-Feb. at Earliest

Tokyo Woman, 26, Pleads Guilty over 2020 Death from Hunger of Daughter, 3

Kazuho Ishibashi Pleads Not Guilty to Fatal "Tomei Expwy. Road Rage" Charges

Moderna Begins Clinical Trial for Omicron-Specific Vaccine

Tokyo Woman, 26, Admits to Leaving Her 3-Yr-Old Daughter to Starve to Death

463 People to Take Additional Unified Univ. Entrance Test due to COVID-19

Japan's Daily Count of New Coronavirus Cases Exceed 70,000 for First Time Ever

Okinawa Prefecture's Coronavirus Resurgence May Have Peaked: Health Min. Panel

Tokyo Confirms Record High of 14,086 Daily New COVID-19 Cases

US Coast Guard Searching for 39 People after Boat Capsizes off Florida Coast

Omicron Variant Accounts for 99.9% of All New COVID-19 Cases in US: CDC

Unified Univ. Entrance Exam Questions Leaked during Test; Police Launch Probe

Japan's Tonga Relief Mission Halted as 3 More SDF Members Contract Coronavirus

Pfizer Launches Clinical Trial for Omicron-Specific Vaccine

Tokyo High Court Upholds Ruling in Journalist Rape Case

Japan's Box-Office Revenue at Second Lowest in 2021 after Record Low in 2020

Japan Emergency Hospital Admission Difficulty Cases Hit Record High

Japan's Daily Count of New Coronavirus Cases Exceed 60,000 for First Time Ever

More Infected Kids in Japan Showed Severe Symptoms during Delta-Caused 5th Wave

JR East Train Station Workers May Use Wearable Small Cameras to Address Problems

NASA James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Destination 1.5 M. km Away from Earth

ASDF Member on Relief Mission to Tonga Contracts Novel Coronavirus

ASDF Aircraft Scrambled 785 Times in April-Dec. 2021, Topping FY 2020 Total

Sony Music Entertainment Acquires Bob Dylan's Entire Catalog of Recorded Music

Japan Health Ministry to Allow Young COVID-19 Patients to Skip Hospital Visits

Japanese Self-Defense Forces Vessel Leaves for Tonga to Deliver Relief Supplies

Record 327 Nursery Schools in Japan Closed due to Spread of Novel Coronavirus

39 China Military Planes Entered Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone Sunday

Ransomware Attack Brought Hospital in Tokushima, Japan, to Halt for 2 Months

Shimane, Kagoshima Prefs. Apply for Pre-Emergency Designation

Japan Weekly Coronavirus Count Up 2.5-Fold at 295,270

Applications Start for 2nd-Round Japan Public Univs Entrance Exams