TOKYO, March 17 Kyodo - A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit off northeastern Japan late Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead and dozens injured and causing a high-speed shinkansen train

TOKYO, March 15 Kyodo - Japan is considering raising the daily cap on overseas arrivals to 10,000 from the current 7,000 starting in April, further easing its COVID-19 border controls, government s

TOKYO, March 15 Kyodo - The Japanese government is arranging to grant entry to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion even if they have no relative or acquaintance in Japan who can act as a guaran

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo - Japan is considering lifting the COVID-19 quasi-state of emergency for 18 prefectures upon its expiration next week as the number of infections in those areas has been decre

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday congratulated Yoon Suk Yeol on winning South Korea's presidential election, expressing hope to improve a bilateral rel

TOKYO, March 8 Kyodo - Japan's justice minister said Tuesday the government has accepted into the country eight people displaced by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, following an earlier anno

TOKYO, March 7 Kyodo - All staff members of the Japanese Embassy in Ukraine will temporarily move out of the country, the government said Monday, citing security reasons as Russia's invasion i

TOKYO, March 7 Kyodo - All staff members of the Japanese Embassy in Ukraine will temporarily move out of the country, the government said Monday, citing security reasons as Russia's invasion i

TOKYO, March 3 Kyodo - Japan will ease its COVID-19 border controls further from March 14, raising the daily cap on entrants from overseas to 7,000 from the current 5,000, Prime Minister Fumio Kish

TOKYO, March 2 Kyodo - Japan is planning to accept people fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine at an early date, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday as Tokyo ramps up its humanitarian