Japan's audit watchdog says more than 10 billion yen, or some 68 million dollars, was improperly paid by coronavirus-related government programs in the fiscal year through March.
The head of the Board of Audit, Morita Yuji, submitted the report on its audit of the fiscal 2021 state budget to Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Monday.
The head of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force and navy chiefs from countries in the Pacific and elsewhere are discussing maritime security in Yokohama City, near Tokyo.
The two-day Western Pacific Naval Symposium opened on Monday. Japan is chairing the biennial event this year.
Vice foreign ministerial-level officials of Japan, the United States and South Korea have agreed to closely cooperate to enhance regional deterrence of North Korea's missile threat.
Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Mori Takeo spoke by phone with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong on Monday.
Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko has given a lecture at her alma mater in Egypt.
Koike is in the country for a five-day stay. She plans to take part in the UN climate conference COP27.
A parade featuring a 16th-century warlord drew a crowd of nearly half a million to the city of Gifu in central Japan on Sunday.
The organizers and police took safety measures to prevent any problems during the two-day festival, following a recent tragedy in Seoul, South Korea.
North Korea is believed to have launched several ballistic missiles on Thursday morning. Japanese officials are trying to determine the latest details.
Japan's Defense Ministry says a number of missiles flew toward the Sea of Japan from around 7:40 a.m.
It has been learned that retirement benefit assets belonging to more than 1 million people have been left at Japan's public pension fund without proper procedures.
Company employees in the country can join a defined contribution pension plan under which premiums are paid by the firms and pension assets are managed by employees.
A hospital in Osaka says no prospect is yet in sight to resume medical services following Monday's ransomware cyberattack on its medical record system.
Osaka General Medical Center has been suspending non-emergency outpatient services and operations, and has stopped accepting emergency patients.
Japan's Defense Minister says North Korea fired at least two ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Wednesday morning, possibly a trajectory-shifting type that is more difficult to intercept.
Hamada Yasukazu says the missiles are both estimated to have landed in the ocean outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.
A nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers plans to hold a general meeting this week with a South Korean parliamentarians' group. The meetings have been suspended for three years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
About 20 members of the Japan-South Korea parliamentarians' union are set to begin a three-day visit to Seoul on Wednesday.
Russia's ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin will reportedly leave his post as early as next month.
Galuzin assumed the role in 2018. He has served in Japan four times, stretching back to the days of the Soviet Union.
A group of religious researchers in Japan has called on authorities to exercise their right to ask questions to bring about a swift investigation into the religious group previously known as the Unification Church.
Twenty-five researchers, including Professor Emeritus Shimazono Susumu of the University of Tokyo and Professor Sakurai Yoshihide of Hokkaido University, issued a statement.
Japan's government has decided on an economic package, designed to tame the impact of rising consumer prices and the weaker yen.
The Cabinet approved the package on Friday. It features local and central government spending worth a total of around 39 trillion yen, or about 270 billion dollars.
Japan's state Minister of Defense has been under opposition fire for alleged ties to the former Unification Church.
Ino Toshiro says he can't rule out having invited people close to the religious group to his Justice Ministry office when he held a post there.