Japanese people ‘have forgotten how to smile’ Japan sees proliferation of seminars and workshops on how to smile in country’s post-pandemic, mask-free era ...

Most Japanese commuters continued wearing face masks on March 13, the day the central government ended its three-year request for protective measure against COVID-19.

The plan to make passenger mask-wearing a “personal choice” in May has been made in line with the government’s planned revision of mask guidelines.

Few Japanese embrace end of mask guidelines. On Monday morning most commuters in Tokyo kept their faces covered, on trains and outdoors. AFP. Commuters masked up in central Tokyo on Monday.

One month after the relaxation of Japanese Covid-19 guidelines, about 86 percent of the population continue to wear their masks in public, according to an artificial intelligence system developed ...

A shogi player was disqualified from a match for not covering his nose with a mask on Jan. 10 during the 81st Meijin class C1 ranking tournament at the Kansai Shogi Hall in Osaka's Fukushima Ward.

TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government relaxed its mask-wearing guidelines on Monday, but the vast majority of fans at the Tokyo Dome watching the World Baseball Classic still wore them.