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The government will test around 10,000 people for coronavirus antibodies starting next month to gauge how far the contagion has spread and whether the nation is approaching “herd immunity,” the healt…
Japan’s largest business lobby plans to suggest that member companies introduce a four-day workweek as part of efforts to reduce risks of novel coronavirus infection. A shift from the curre…
Face masks delivered from the convenience store chain’s headquarters are worn by employees, who are also asked to take their own temperature every day before work. Different retail categories ar…
Coronavirus fears left the nation's normally jam-packed bullet trains and expressways deserted on the first day of Golden Week on Saturday as the pace of infections showed little sign of sl…
Japan will review its long-standing administrative custom requiring official documents be stamped with personal seals — a tradition that has been a major bottleneck in containing the spread of C…
Sagamihara Central Hospital said some staff took time off after losing access to child care. Japan has yet to reach the mass infections seen in other developed nations, with just under 12,000 ca…
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his team are likely to extend the state of emergency for the coronavirus in prefectures still struggling to curb the pandemic, sources said Friday. The emergency de…
A Japanese team of researchers has shown that time at Tokyo Skytree’s observatory — around 450 meters above sea level — passes four nanoseconds faster per day than at near ground level. On a wee…
Day after day, the rising number of new cases of the coronavirus in Tokyo and nationwide is making headlines. When Tokyo reported a record 197 new coronavirus cases Saturday, 77 percent were cas…
Japan has earmarked ¥243.5 billion of its record economic support package to help manufacturers shift production out of China as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts supply chains between the major trad…
