A sushi restaurant in Tokyo’s Tsukiji area donated 100 sushi rolls to frontline workers at a hospital that treats coronavirus patients. The rolls are believed to bring luck when eaten on a special day in early February.
In a way to welcome good fortune and drive out the bad, Setsubun festivities were held in various parts of Japan on February 2 with limited participants amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The press got to see the interior of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial that has been undergoing preservation work since last September. The structure is a symbol of the devastation of the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japanese city.
Sources say Japan's government plans to deliver COVID vaccinations to the general population in May.
An increasing number of businesses across Japan permanently close their doors amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
Railway companies serving the greater Tokyo area move up the times of their last train amid the state of emergency over the coronavirus.
One year has passed since Japan confirmed the first coronavirus patient in the country, but new cases of infection are on the surge despite the government’s declaration of the second state of emergency over the pandemic.
You won't believe this wacky winter ritual where locals throw a married man down a snowy hill to his wife.
