TOKYO
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 38,940 new coronavirus cases, up 8,098 from Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines — He was known by such monikers as “Steady Eddie,” for his unflappable nature, and “Tabako,” for his penchant for carrying a cigar.

Japan on Thursday reported 233,094 coronavirus cases, a record high for the second straight day. Eighteen prefectures also recorded their highest numbers.

GENEVA — For the seven days through Sunday, Japan marked the world’s highest number of weekly confirmed new cases of the novel coronavirus, with 970,000 recorded, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines — Government employees had to leave their offices in a rush Wednesday morning after an earthquake hit parts of the country.

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday gave the Filipino people a more detailed preview of what his administration intends to accomplish in the next six years, highlighting the immediate need to resuscitate the pandemic-battered economy and to uplift the lives of marginalized farmers, debt-strapped agrarian reform beneficiaries, migrant workers and the poor.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) maintained that the Philippines remained monkeypox-free even as the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday declared the disease a global health emergency — the highest alarm it can sound.

TOKYO
The Japanese government said on Friday it would hold a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27, amid street and social media protests that the state shouldn’t fund ceremonies for Japan’s longest-serving, but divisive, premier.

MANILA, Philippines — The plan of Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo to expose undeserving beneficiaries of the government’s cash aid program could just pit neighbor against neighbor, similar to the ways of the much-loathed “Makapili” spies during the Japanese occupation, one of his predecessors said on Wednesday.

TOKYO
The foreign ministers of Japan and Saudi Arabia agreed Tuesday that the two nations will work together to stabilize the global oil market as oil prices have surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.