Even if you become interested in history at a young age, you tend to view it in simple terms: so and so won, so and so lost, this war ended precisely on this date, that rule began at precisely that mo...

The captain came over the intercom early in the evening: a passenger who had left the ship nine days earlier had tested positive for the new coronavirus sweeping through China.While the guests on boar...

A woman has died from the coronavirus in Japan, the first such death in the country since the epidemic spread from China, the health minister said on Thursday.Two taxi drivers, one of them in Tokyo, h...

The Chinese province at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more infections using a broader case definition on Thursday, while Japan became the third ...

Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on a quarantined cruise ship and turned away another luxury liner while the death toll in mainland China rose to 636, including a doctor who got in tro...

Japan has quarantined a cruise ship carrying 3,711 people and was testing those onboard for the new coronavirus on Tuesday after a former passenger was diagnosed with the illness in Hong Kong.Eight pe...

Japan may extend a special recruitment programme to the Northeast under which residents of the region will be offered nursing jobs in that country. This was conveyed by outgoing ambassador of Japan K...

India’s top players, including PV Sindhu, may not be going through the best of times, but national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is hopeful of a best-ever Olympics outing in Tokyo. “We have ha...

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Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn is promising to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, give up his passport and pay for security guards approved by prosecutors to gain release from detent...