Japan coronavirus

The pandemic has exposed feeble leadership on the part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

As stay-at-home appeals start to take effect in Japan, alarms have been raised over a growing worldwide trend in domestic abuse cases.

Despite a state of emergency declared in parts of Japan, businesses have been slow to expand a work culture away from the office.

"An elegant tweet despite a national crisis," blared a headline in the Nikkan Sports tabloid. "Abe the aristocrat!!" 

Whether to lockdown is not a binary question. We need to ask, under what conditions should we do it?

As stay-at-home advisories gain traction and customer numbers dwindle, music venues, bars, and clubs say they face bankruptcy without subsidies.

The government's guidelines for reopening schools are met with mixed feelings as Tokyo residents prepare for a soft lockdown this weekend.

Japan's capital is preparing hospital beds and mulling the possibility of a lockdown.

With limited testing and little interest in social distancing, Japan's coronavirus response is puzzling.

A third leg of incentives are being formulated to ease the economic fallout of the pandemic on Japan’s deteriorating economy.

Are the IOC and the Japanese government hesitant to cancel the Summer Olympic Games because they want to quell public fear -- or avoid embarrassment?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared the spread of the coronavirus as a “state of historic emergency.”