The first positive coronavirus case inside the Olympic Village has been confirmed just six days before the Opening Ceremony, officials said Saturday, amid growing fears about the spread of the virus during the Games.

Following Britain's lead, Japanese government created an isolation/ loneliness countermeasures office in its cabinet on February 19 to counter issues like suicide and child poverty.

The Summer Olympic Games will likely open under a COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo. Officials in Japan are expected to make a decision this week to reinstate the state of emergency until Aug. 22.

For the past 18 generations, one family has preserved a 400-year-old recipe showing how sushi once tasted, and it doesn't use raw seafood, but fish aged for three years.

It's hard to make people care about cybersecurity. A Japanese company, however, has a suggestion.

Employees at Microsoft Japan worked four days a week, enjoyed a three-day weekend — and got their normal, five-day paycheck. As part of the trial, the company also capped meetings at 30 minutes.

The approach could make it possible to travel between continents in under an hour, and now Japan has outlined its vision for how to make the idea a reality.

In a Japanese tree burial, cremated remains are placed in the ground and a tree is planted over the ashes to mark the gravesite. Environmental responsibility is part of Buddhism.

Nintendo just announced plans to take one of its old production facilities in Japan and turn it into the “Nintendo Gallery”, a place to “showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history”.

In Japan, local authorities are giving away renovation subsidies to incentivize people to move into the country's rural areas.

He's fresh from a shopping holiday in Japan and Dan Taipua has seen some awesome, awesome shit. In the 2nd and final part of this series he passes on all that he has learnt to any retro game tourists thinking of hitting the Japanese arcades.

IOC member John Coates has said the Olympics could be held even under a COVID-19 state of emergency, an opinion the union's leader said was infuriating.

Prime minister Yoshihide Suga risks playing host to a coronavirus spike, says Koichi Nakano of Sophia University, Japan

The United States has added Japan to its list of countries not to travel to due to the COVID-19 situation.

From the 10th century till their abolition in the 1870s, samurai were a class of Japanese military nobility who inherited lives as warrior protectorates (bushi) for feudal lords, and had a notoriously strict and intricate honour code. This video from the YouTube channel Voices of the Past explores two scrolls from the famed samurai school Natori-Ryu’s 17th-century rulebook.

Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees

AMAMI, Kagoshima -- A record 1,087 humpback whales in 670 pods were observed migrating to waters off Amami-Oshima island

Ishi-no-Hoden is one of Japan's most mysterious and bewildering monuments, a gigantic stone structure in the shape of an old tube TV almost 6 meters (20 ft) high and 500 tons (560 US tons) in weight that seems to float over a pond in the city of Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture.

Here is how Japan's space agency pulled off a daring expedition to snatch pieces of the ancient space rock Ryugu.

The cryptocurrency market has gained widespread popularity and regulators in many jurisdictions have imposed taxation policies. Usually, Tax evaders face heavy penalties, but Japanese authorities have taken things up a notch and have sentenced one such defaulter to serve a year in prison, alongside a hefty fine of $200,000.