Postponements of matches reflect the growing challenges facing amateur teams as they attempt to cope with Japan’s increasingly hostile summer months.

Experts predict the trend will continue amid high heat, declining population-level immunity and the start of the holiday season.

A 1,400-page report by parliament on forced sterilizations of people with disabilities sets out Japan's grim history with eugenics, but experts say the matter is far from closed.

Group of Seven Urban ministers meeting in Japan agreed to work together with municipal governments to address global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Lecanemab could be approved in the country as early as fall, but more specialist doctors and a patient screening system would be needed for widespread use.

The number of new cases per hospital was 39.48 in Okinawa Prefecture, up from 28.74 a week before and marking an increase for six consecutive weeks.

Officials say increased precautions due to COVID-19 kept cases of herpangina and RS virus low last year.

A woman in her 70s who had suffered a tick bite died of myocarditis last year after being infected with the Oz virus, the health ministry said Friday.

A vaccine subcommittee under the health ministry is aiming to prepare for another spike in infections possibly arriving in the winter.

The average number of patients at each reporting facility was 5.11, up from 4.55 in the previous week and from 2.63 between May 8 and May 14.