The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games are hours away from kicking off, barely a year and a half after the Tokyo Games wrapped up. 

Japan is considering a two-week extension of infection controls in 13 regions, including its capital Tokyo, to rein in a record surge of COVID-19 infections, the Fuji News Network said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: India’s golden boy Neeraj Chopra has truly turned global. The champion javelin thrower, who became the first Indian track and field athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, was on Wednesday nominated for the prestigious Laureus ‘World Breakthrough of the Year’ award…

Tokyo confirmed 21,576 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, with the tally topping 20,000 for the first time, marking a record high for the first time in five days.

New COVID-19 cases in Tokyo exceeded 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday, dimming hopes that a wave of infections fuelled by the Omicron variant is peaking in Japan.

Rooms are available in accommodation facilities secured by prefectural governments in urban areas for people infected with the coronavirus, but it is proving tough to get booked into one.

Pfizer-BioNTech seeks US approval for under-5s Covid inoculation; Lithuania to scrap Covid pass on Saturday

Stock prices in Tokyo and Sydney have followed Wall Street higher while China, South Korea and Southeast Asian markets were closed for the Lunar New Year

The new U.S. ambassador to Tokyo, Rahm Emanuel, says Washington is “fully committed” to working with Japan to confront growing regional tensions