30 March 2021

Japan’s jobless rate was steady at 2.9% in February, while the availabilit...

17 March 2021

As the government looks to decide Thursday whether to end the COVID-19 state of emergency covering the Tokyo metropolitan area as schedul...

10 March 2021

A series of coronavirus variants appearing to have an "escape mutation," which decreases the efficacy of immunity against the virus, have...

15 February 2021

Japan's economy surged in the fourth quarter of 2020, but it wasn't enough to keep the country from negative growth for the year.

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01 February 2021

Japan will on Tuesday extend the state of emergency for regions continuing to see a high number of coronavirus infections, government sou...

29 January 2021

Japan's parliament enacted Thursday a third extra budget for fiscal 2020 totaling 19.18 trillion yen ($185 billion) to ramp up measures t...

22 January 2021

Japan doubled down on its commitment to host the Tokyo Olympics this year and flatly denied reports on Friday of a cancellation, in a mov...

12 January 2021

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told a meeting of ruling party executives on Tuesday (Jan 12) he would declare a state of eme...

11 January 2021

About 80% of people in Japan say this year’s Tokyo Olympics should be canc...