The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

Paralympians say the awareness and participation levels have seen an increase

When Simone Biles had to pull out of the team event final, Chiles stepped in. The 20-year-old gymnast shares the lessons she learned from winning a silver medal at the Summer Games.

Hiroshima-based social welfare corporation Sun Phoenix, which operates special nursing homes for the elderly in that prefecture and in Tokyo and Okayama, effectively sold its management rights, which is not allowed by the central government, and about 3 billion yen in its bank account was siphoned away, The Yomiuri Shimbun…

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More than 50,000 new coronavirus cases were confirmed across Japan on Saturday, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun tally, marking a record high for the fifth consecutive day.

Tokyo recorded its fourth record number of daily COVID-19 infections on Saturday, breaking above 10,000, while Japan's exceeded 50,000 for the first time as the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly.

Travel restrictions have stranded almost 150,000 students, workers and others hoping to join relatives

Restaurants and bars will close early in Tokyo and a dozen other areas across Japan beginning Friday as the country widens COVID-19 restrictions due to the omicron variant, which has caused cases to surge to new highs in metropolitan areas. The restraint, which is something of a pre-state of emergency,…

Public health centers were stretched to the limit during last summer's fifth wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic, prompting the government in October to ask prefectural governments to make additional arrangements in preparation for future outbreaks.