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- Shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange continued to decline Tuesday morning.
- Japan’s top government spokesperson says the current situation in the country does not require a declaration of a state of emergency.
- Japan’s nuclear regulator says radiation levels around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have decreased to about a quarter of 2011 levels.
- Japan’s government is strengthening its border controls for travelers from two neighboring countries in a bid to stem the spread of the infections of the new coronavirus.
- Japan’s GDP for the final quarter of 2019 has been revised downward.
- Japan’s government says North Korea launched what appeared to be ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Monday morning.
- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says the government will ban people from entering and leaving Lombardy and surrounding provinces in northern Italy. The area includes Milan and Venice.
- The Japanese health minister says he expects the country’s capability to test people for the new coronavirus will top 7,000 a day by the end of this month.
- Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso has requested financial institutions to help smaller businesses tide over possible financial difficulties amid negative effects from the coronavirus outbreak.
- NHK calculates that the number of confirmed infections around the world now exceeds 100,000.
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says authorities will work with the cruise industry to strengthen the screening of passengers for the novel coronavirus.
- An international survey shows female representation in national parliaments around the world has almost doubled in the past 25 years. But Japan ranked low despite an increase in the proportion of female lawmakers.