Casualwear chain Uniqlo's flagship store in Seoul, which raked in 2 billion won ($1.8 million at current rates) in sales a day when it first opened in 2011, will close its doors at the end of next month. (Nikkei)

Nearly nine out of 10 Japanese companies plan to suspend their year-end and New Year parties to help reduce the risk of employees becoming infected with the coronavirus, a recent survey showed, in what would be another pandemic-induced disruption of the country's seasonal traditions. (Japan Today)

Japan is seeing a surge in coronavirus cases across the country. Daily cases topped 3,000 for the first time on Saturday. The spread of infections will likely affect the way people spend the year-end holidays. (NHK)

Suspicions that Huawei Technologies telecom gear could serve as back door for Chinese spying have helped breathe new life into a Japanese tech ecosystem long thought moribund. (Nikkei)

An enhanced customer experience has the power that many tend to overlook. It is through their amazing experience that most SaaS companies achieve long-term success. (newsonjapan.com)

Japan's prime minister says the government will entirely suspend its domestic travel subsidy campaign late this month as the number of new coronavirus infections remains at record high levels. (NHK)

Japanese business sentiment improved at the fastest pace in nearly two decades in October-December, a key central bank survey showed, a welcome sign for the economy as it emerges from the initial hit of the coronavirus pandemic. (WION)

A written character that evokes everything people in Japan were urged to avoid this year -- crowds, confined spaces and close contact with others -- was on Monday voted the country's top linguistic symbol of 2020. (yahoo.com)

Marriage and childbirth go hand in hand in Japan, perhaps more so than in many other developed countries, but for Rei Kakyoin, a self-identified asexual, the former was never an option. (Kyodo)

A man in his 50s who had mild symptoms of the coronavirus was found dead in his room at a hotel which was being used as a quarantine facility in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Friday night. (Japan Today)

When Japan announced a state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic, people were urged to declutter their homes. Many have taken that message to heart, sparking a boom in the second-hand goods market. (Reuters)

On the morning of December 10th, the first meeting of the Organizing Committee of the 19th Conference on International Exchange of Professionals (CIEP) was held in Shenzhen. (newsonjapan.com)

Japan has entered the third week since its government called for a focused fight against the new coronavirus in what it said would be a "critical three weeks." (NHK)

Communications minister Ryota Takeda on Friday urged NHK to lower its viewing fees at an early date. (Japan Times)

Japan set a single-day record for COVID-19 cases on Saturday, passing the 3,000 threshold for the first time ever, NHK reported, as Tokyo also confirmed a record 621 new infections and Osaka registered 429 — a two-week high for the prefecture. (Japan Times)

The number of bankruptcies in Japan's dining industry will likely hit an all-time high in 2020 as many establishments struggle to restore their cash flow amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the results of a recent survey showed. (Japan Today)

Some people’s lives are like horror movies. It’s strange that, in an age that can create virtual reality, self-driving cars and intelligent machines, the world’s third-largest economy can’t solve the problem of human misery. Maybe it’s insoluble. (Japan Times)

Prominent Japanese comedian and actor Masao Komatsu, known for the comedy song 'Shirakedori Ondo,' died of liver cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Monday. He was 78. (Japan Times)

This port town was de aster by the earthquake and tsunami that followed in March 11, 2011. Ahead of the 10th year, I’ve come to talk with locals. (ONLY in JAPAN)

A new report shows Japanese companies are second in the world in patent applications for AI and other industrial technology. (NHK)

An expert panel at Japan's health ministry has given a go-ahead to sales of the country's first genome-edited food. (NHK)

With just eight months until the Olympics, Japanese sports leagues are carrying out high-tech experiments to learn how COVID-19 spreads in stadiums. ()

A court Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man to death for murdering five people in 2018 at a home in the prefecture of Kagoshima. (Japan Times)

A unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone priced Japan's largest-ever bond sale of 1 trillion yen ($9.62 billion) on Friday, attracting more than double its target in orders. (Nikkei)

Both South Korea and Japan are seeing spikes in new coronavirus cases. (Al Jazeera)