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Travelers filled the international departure lobby of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Wednesday following the easing of coronavirus-related border control measures.

TOKYO: Japan increased its daily entry cap on arrivals from 20,000 to 50,000 on Wednesday, as the country's tourism sector has been languishing in the face of strict Covid-19 border controls imposed for more than two years.

TOKYO — The upcoming state funeral for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was billed as an opportunity to stand up for democracy after his assassination on the campaign trail. It has ended up dividing the public and threatening his successor’s agenda.

Zurich (AFP) - Dutch track star Sifan Hassan, who won double Olympic gold in the 5,000 and 10,000m at the Tokyo Games, said Tuesday she was thinking about stepping up to the marathon.

An American diplomat in Tokyo has criticized what he calls China’s “increasingly hostile maritime actions” as a threat to the safety of waterways in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific

Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee who was arrested last month on suspicion of receiving bribes from one Games sponsor, Aoki Holdings, Inc., was rearrested on Tuesday on suspicion of receiving a total of about 76 million yen in bribes…

Fast Retailing Co. has opened a virtual store that reproduces part of its Uniqlo Tokyo flagship store in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on the internet.

Bribery allegations against a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member are widening as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Haruyuki Takahashi in a case involving suspected payments from a publisher which became a sponsor for the Games

Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing. The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen ($71) per booking to accompany clients and simply exist as a companion. "Basically, I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever my…

Japanese prosecutors arrested two officials at a sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday as part of a widening bribery investigation that media said involved a former member of the Tokyo 2020 board.

Tokyo (AFP) - Japan expects to spend around 1.7 billion yen ($12 million) on a state funeral for assassinated former premier Shinzo Abe, the government said Tuesday, despite controversy over the plan.