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- Health officials say the number of coronavirus patients receiving treatment at hospitals across Japan has shot up more than five-fold in the space of just one month.
- A questionnaire y a Japanese credit research firm has found that hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses in the country may have to consider bankruptcy if the coronavirus outbreak isn’t brought under control soon.
- A long-running wartime labor lawsuit in South Korea against a Japanese company appears to be entering a new phase. The case has damaged relations between the two countries. A court order that took effect on Tuesday could widen that rift by allowing assets to be seized from Nippon Steel.
- Students in Japan are having a much shorter summer break this year to make up for classes that were cancelled in the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- A survey conducted by NHK’s Hiroshimas bureau has found that about 70 percent of young Americans think that nuclear weapons are unnecessary.
- A major Japanese food chain, Curry House CoCo Ichibanya, on Monday opened a restaurant in India, the home of curry dishes.