Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to provide two cloth masks for each household, an anti-coronavirus measure that was ridiculed on social media, will cost 46.6 billion yen ($424 million ...

NAGOYA--Thousands of rejected free face masks that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered to send to every household in Japan are finding their way to those that want them, thanks to a group of medical ...

In spring 2020, then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had promoted the masks as a priority safety measure to keep novel coronavirus infections from spreading. Abe promised to send one mask to each ...