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Japan on Friday extended a state of emergency to three additional prefectures, Hokkaido, Okayama and Hiroshima, due to rising COVID cases. Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japan’s economy minister,…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party is renewing its push for its long-cherished goal of revising the country’s pacifist constitution,…

BERLIN — A large German health insurance provider says the number of days working-age people called in sick during the…

TOKYO (AP) — Seated inside Tokyo’s new $1.4 billion National Stadium, Sebastian Coe again tried to reassure athletes and skeptical…

TOKYO (AP) — Trains packed with commuters returning to work after a weeklong national holiday. Frustrated young people drinking in…

An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled has garnered almost 200,000 signatures in the past few…

TOKYO (AP) — Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of…

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics torch relay will take another detour this weekend when it enters the southern island…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week’s climate summit. But…

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympics organizers said Thursday that a policeman tested positive for COVID-19 a day after his assignment…