People in Tokyo are watching with wary eyes as the latest daily case numbers hover in the mid-100s after topping 200 four days in a row through Sunday. (NHK)

A fireball that brightened the Tokyo sky earlier this month has been identified as a meteor after fragments were found in a neighboring prefecture, a national science museum said Monday. (Japan Times)

Heavy rains in the northern part of Japan's Kyushu island are threatening the territory with landslides and flooding. (NHK)

Japan's government is considering allowing corporate executives from the United States and European countries to enter the country on certain conditions. (NHK)

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo says the government will compile a financial package of more than 3.7 billion dollars to help regions in the southwest and elsewhere left battered by record rainfall. (NHK)

Police in Kyoto on Monday morning arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of fatally stabbing his 24-year-old girlfriend to death at her apartment in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture. (Japan Today)

A city employee from Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, dispatched for disaster relief efforts to Kumamoto Prefecture, has been found to be infected with the novel coronavirus, the Kumamoto government said Monday. (Japan Times)

Schools in the southwestern Japanese city of Hitoyoshi have reopened, after heavy rain caused floods and mudslides in the area recently. (NHK)

The Japan Sumo Association says it will hold its July tournament in Tokyo with about 2,500 spectators, roughly 25 percent of the full capacity. The reduction is part of measures against the coronavirus outbreak. (NHK)

Experts are urging people across Japan to remain vigilant, despite a slight reprieve Monday in recent daily coronavirus numbers. (NHK)

Heavy rain has toppled an ancient cedar tree at a shrine in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. (NHK)

Japanese in their 20s and early 30s are going to bed earlier and sleeping about eight hours a day, 40 to 50 minutes longer than the same demographic did 10 years ago, according to a recent survey. (Japan Times)

More heavy rain is expected in eastern and western Japan through Tuesday. Meteorological Agency officials say people should remain on alert for landslides and flooding. (NHK)

A national facility devoted to the indigenous Ainu people and their culture opens on Sunday in their ancestral region of Hokkaido in northern Japan. (NHK)

On July 4th, a rescue team carried out a helicopter operation to save a woman and a cat stranded in the floodwaters in Japan's Hitoyoshi. (RT)

Welcome to my secret Tokyo hideout (when it rains) near Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. (ONLY in JAPAN)

The new coronavirus infection count has been rising across the nation with more than 200 cases reported in Tokyo on Sunday. (NHK)

More Japanese companies are using stocks as part of executive pay, seeking to shift management's focus to strategies that will increased share prices over the long term. (Nikkei)

NHK has learned that the Japanese government plans to allow foreign nationals with certain residency statuses, including students and technical trainees, to re-enter the country despite a ban imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (NHK)

Residents are returning to their homes in Kuma village, in the Kumamoto prefecture of Japan, one of the regions worst hit by the recent torrential rain, to start the process of cleaning and searching for their belongings. (RT)

Heavy rain continues to fall intermittently in Gifu and Nagano Prefectures, central Japan, and in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The earth had been loosened and dikes had been damaged in some areas, raising the risks of further floods and mudslides. (NHK)

With the midsummer heat still not quite here, Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea call off Christmas and all other seasonal celebrations. (soranews24.com)

Tokyo reported on Saturday 206 new coronavirus infections, topping the 200 mark for the third straight day, an official said. (Japan Today)

A court in China has ruled that a Chinese filmmaker must compensate a Japanese production company for infringing on its copyright by using the firm's "Ultraman" character. (NHK)

ANA Holdings said Friday it will end its recruiting activities for fiscal 2021 as the prolonged pandemic makes planning for the future difficult. (Nikkei)