Japan coronavirus

A new buzzword to describe red-light districts has been cropping up in official comments designed to give the impression that the pandemic is contained to certain areas.

The biggest key to Japan's coronavirus success? Its all-access, no-gatekeeping health care system.

Expats stranded in limbo overseas have hope on the way with borders poised to reopen to all foreign residents, albeit at a staggered pace.

The coronavirus economic fallout adds new challenges to tackling Japan’s worrying fertility projections.

With Japan’s initial coronavirus response providing limited clarity, the need for long-term measures to prevent an outbreak is becoming more apparent. 

COVID-19 reset the clock on the countdown and dampened enthusiasm for the Games.

Anticipation of an economic windfall in 2020 has fallen flat, but there’s still hope for the post-COVID future.

As infections surge, Tokyo’s alert system and the challenges of living with COVID-19 come under the spotlight.

At this point it is necessary to develop a stepwise approach from the end of the state of emergency to a final exit strategy.

Japan’s right wing is claiming “victory” in the pandemic, but no one seems to understand what, exactly, averted disaster.

A newly devised tourism recovery campaign gets bogged down in a debate over transparency and inflated costs.