Experts in Japan are calling on people to use face masks cautiously in the summer when the risk of heatstroke increases. (NHK)

Japan's Diet on Tuesday enacted a revised road traffic law that will impose tougher penalties on drivers involved in road rage incidents. (NHK)

NHK has learned that Tokyo Tower will reopen from Thursday, although most visitors will have to take the stairs instead of elevators to access the observation deck. (NHK)

The operator of Tokyo Tower is making final preparations to welcome visitors again after more than a month of closure due to the coronavirus outbreak. (NHK)

Over 40 percent of the coronavirus-linked deaths in Osaka involve hospital infections, sources in the prefectural government told Jiji Press on Saturday. (Japan Times)

Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying a Kounotori unmanned cargo vessel, developed by the national space agency, on its final mission to transport supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). (Japan Times)

Japan's health ministry has revised its criteria for people to be tested for the coronavirus, after experts criticized it for potentially discouraging people from seeking consultations. (NHK)

Japan's health ministry is set to change the criteria for allowing people to be tested for the coronavirus. (NHK)

Some small municipalities in Japan began distributing on Thursday one-off cash handouts to people to help cushion them from the economic fallout related to the new coronavirus' spread. (Japan Today)

A Japanese surfers' association is asking its members to stay at home because a state of emergency is in place for the coronavirus pandemic. (NHK)

Japan's health ministry says more than 11 percent of those in their 80s or older with coronavirus infection have died. (NHK)

As the coronavirus pandemic rages unabated, nations around the world have started looking at each other to understand how they might impede the virus' spread. (Kyodo)

Japan's population suffered its largest one-year drop last year, government estimates released Tuesday show, with the country's working-age labor force falling to a new low. (Nikkei)

Japan's health ministry says those who died or got seriously ill from the coronavirus were largely elderly but also included younger people. (NHK)

The Japanese government will start mailing reusable cloth masks to all households in the country next week in a bid to address the continuing shortage. (NHK)

A state of emergency is set to be declared in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Osaka, Hyogo and Fukuoka prefectures -- areas most heavily hit by the spread of the coronavirus. So how will life change for residents? (Japan Today)

Japan’s approach to halting the coronavirus pandemic might seem to other nations around the world like it is very social, and not so distant. (Japan Times)

What’s happening in Japan is written all over our faces — our blank, expressionless, masked faces. Never before, it seems safe to say, have so many people gone about masked. (Japan Times)

The new version of Harajuku Station opened on Tokyo’s busy Yamanote loop line Saturday as visitors in masks gathered to gawk despite the coronavirus pandemic. (Japan Times)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government will not extend its current request for school closures across Japan to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and will allow classes to begin as scheduled in the new academic year starting April, the education minister said Friday. (Japan Timesj)

The coronavirus outbreak is affecting the operation of elderly daycare centers in Japan as infections spread among staff and clients. Some facilities have been forced to suspend their services. (NHK)

Seven new cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Japan on Tuesday, bringing the total to 987. That includes more than 700 from a quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo. (NHK)

The government decided Tuesday to reform the pension system by expanding the range of part-time workers who can join the kōsei nenkin public pension program for corporate employees. (Japan Times)

The Japanese government is stepping up its protective measures, with a proposed pause on large public gatherings. (NHK)

Japan's government has drafted a basic policy on the coronavirus in a bid to stem the number of new cases. (NHK)