March 10, Tuesday, 2020 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Hiroko Kitadai and Ms. Fumiko Konoe

  1. Shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange continued to decline Tuesday morning.
  2. Japan’s top government spokesperson says the current situation in the country does not require a declaration of a state of emergency.
  3. Japan’s nuclear regulator says radiation levels around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have decreased to about a quarter of 2011 levels.