Japan

Latest Stories

List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Audience members cheer for Wataru Tanigawa of Japan as he competes in the rings during an international gymnastics meet in Tokyo on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Gymnasts from four countries of China, Russia, U.S. and Japan performed in the meet at Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium, a venue planned to be used in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the summer 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Tokyo holds 1-day gym meet to show Olympics may be possible

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Japan’s Toyota sees profit slip, holding up despite pandemic

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2018, file photo, Japan's Kohei Uchimura clenches his fist after his performance on the rings during the men's team final of the Gymnastics World Chamionships at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. Uchimura, who reported a positive COVID-19 test last week and now testing negative several times, is expected to participate along with gymnasts from the United States, China, and Russia in a one-day meet on Sunday in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Tokyo hosts 4-country gymnastics meet to test COVID safety

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus reads the headlines about the U.S. presidential elections at a newspapers stand in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. The world is watching as millions of Americans cast their ballots for the next president on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

World waits nervously, impatiently for US vote count

By John Leicester - Associated Press

In this Aug. 31, 2020, file photo, a staff gestures at Japan Olympic Museum where a lantern containing the Olympic Flame shown prior to public display, in Tokyo. The postponed Tokyo Olympics are to open in just under nine months, and there are still far more questions than answers. Organizers and the International Olympic Committee say they are working on a vast number of contingency plans to hold the Games in the midst of a pandemic. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

Olympic Q&A: Pandemic planning for tickets, fans, doctors

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

This photo shows a device to detect carbon dioxide installed in the seats of a baseball stadium, home for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, in Yokohama, south of Tokyo on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The device was introduced during a media tour Friday. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan uses high-tech experiments to fill baseball stadium

Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 30, 2019 image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. The U.S. State Department has agreed to turn over to Japan Taylor and his son Peter Taylor, who are accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country while he was awaiting trial, the men's lawyers said in legal filing on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. (DHA via AP)

US calls bid to stop extradition of 2 to Japan ‘meritless’

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are on display, in Tokyo. Fans living in Japan who bought tickets for the postponed Tokyo Olympics have been guaranteed refunds by the local organizing committee. Applications begin next month. This means that fans who already know they cannot use their tickets next year can get their money back. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tokyo Olympics to give refunds to ticket buyers in Japan

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2020, file photo, a worker in a hazmat suit carries a hose while working at a water treatment facility at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday, Oct. 28, that his government is carefully working on final details on a release of the massive amount of treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, after a speculated decision of a release to the sea by the end of October has triggered fierce protests from fishermen around the country. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Japan PM says plan to release Fukushima water coming soon

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by 2020 UNDERDOG FILM PARTNERS shows film director Masaharu Take at the movie set of Underdog. Take's films have always focused on painful stories about Japan’s &quot;under-class,&quot; people who are often overlooked in a nation stereotyped as monolithically well-to-do. “Underdog” opens the Tokyo International Film Festival, which starts Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (2020 UNDERDOG FILM PARTNERS via AP)

Tokyo festival opens with grueling boxing ‘Underdog’ film

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Test to allow Japanese visitors to bypass Hawaii quarantine

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

Members of Atomic Bomb survivors groups gather, holding a banner calling for Japanese government to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, with the Atomic Bomb Dome in background, in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. The United Nations confirmed Saturday that 50 countries have ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, known as the TPNW, paving the way for its entry into force in 90 days. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan rejects nuclear ban treaty; survivors to keep pushing

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japanese lawmakers wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus attend an extraordinary Diet session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Post-Abe agenda: Suga says Japan to go carbon-free by 2050

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 participates in an air power demonstration over the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is returning from an eight-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Ignacio D. Perez/Released)

Trump rallying Asian allies to be top gun in showdown with China

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Scholars decry Japan PM’s academic panel rejections

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan, Britain sign free trade deal for post-Brexit era

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Japan sticks to nuke fuel cycle despite plutonium stockpile

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. After almost two years circling the ancient asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA via AP)

US spacecraft touches asteroid surface for rare rubble grab

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, sits during a meeting with Vietnam's National Assembly's Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monhday, Oct. 19, 2020. Suga is on an official visit to Vietnam. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s PM, in Indonesia, says SE Asia key for his nation

By NINIEK KARMINI and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press