To lower the burden on health care systems, the rules for self-isolation are changing — here's a rundown of the latest from the health ministry.

Russia-Japan relations are centered on the decadeslong dispute over four islands northeast of Hokkaido that Russia occupies and Japan claims.

States in the Middle East are increasingly looking to China not just to buy their oil, but to invest in their infrastructure and cooperate on ...

Kishida told parliament that he will lead efforts to speed up the booster shot rollout, including by making it clear that mixing-and-matching vaccinations is effective.

There are concerns that community-acquired infections of the new variant, which is believed to be more infectious than the original omicron strain, may have started.

The basic principle under the Civil Code is that a man who was in a marital relationship with a woman when she got pregnant is ...

Many Tokyo-based economists are among those warning that the omicron wave could trigger yet another quarter of negative growth for the world’s third-largest economy.

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has pointed to the need to closely watch the bed occupancy rate of severely ill patients and those with moderate COVID-19 ...

For those who keep tabs on the global supply chain, the very concept of a return to normalcy has given way to a begrudging acceptance ...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has pointed to the need to closely watch the bed occupancy rate of severely ill patients and those with moderate COVID-19 ...