Yahoo! JAPAN is undertaking a variety of measures such as delivering reliable information to our users in an easy-to-understand manner, and supporting children to study at home while the schools are closed.
September 3, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Loco was selected among the contractors of online restaurant booking operations for the “Go To Eat” campaign run by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Loco starts posting information on sanitation measures taken at stores and facilities.(Japanese only)
September 2, 2020
A virtual cycling event “Online O-‘En’ Fes” (online festival for sustaining and supporting connection) held in place of TOUR de TOHOKU which was canceled this year.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Tour de Tohoku(Japanese only)
August 31, 2020
In light of the post-COVID-19 lifestyle, Yahoo! JAPAN BEAUTY started a feature that enables users to refine their search based on sanitation measures taken at beauty parlors.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN BEAUTY(Japanese only)
August 25, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN and Shiga Prefecture announced holding of a large-scale online disaster preparedness drill,“#make use of hazard map,” on Disaster Prevention Day (September1).
Press Release(Japanese only)
August 24, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN and YAMATO TRANSPORT strengthened collaboration in non-face-to-face delivery services for individual customers for the post-COVID-19 lifestyle. Starting from September 1, the lowest shipment fee of 170 yen is offered for C to C transactions of YAHUOKU! and PayPay Flea Market using “Nekopos” (delivery to mailbox) service.
Press Release(Japanese only)
August 20, 2020
COVID-19 Benefit Donation Project Consortium decided the recipients (individuals and organizations) of the donation money.
Press Release(Japanese only)
August 18, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN opened a special website, “Answers to your questions on COVID-19 testing,” which aggregates COVID-19 testing information and advises appropriate action in case of a fever or other suspected symptoms.
Press Release(Japanese only)
“Answers to your questions on COVID-19 testing”(Japanese only)
August 12, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Car Navigation (for iOS/Android) began a “congestion forecast” feature that enables users to check the congestion situation around approx. 50,000 retail stores, commercial facilities, and leisure facilities.
Press Release(Japanese only)
August 5, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN MAP app (for iOS/Android)began a function that enables users to check summer event updates smoothly on the map.
Press Release(Japanese only)
July 30, 2020
Updated the congestion radar of the Yahoo! JAPAN MAP app (for iOS/Android) with a feature to make the congestion level around commercial facilities easily visible with icons; the number of the facilities covered was expanded to approximately 50,000.
Press Release(Japanese only)
July 30, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN concluded agreements with all target local governments for the free provision of data solution service to support their measures against COVID-19; also started a full scale provision of “DS.INSIGHT for Gov” for governmental agencies.
Press Release(Japanese only)
DS.INSIGHT for Gov(Japanese only)
July 8, 2020
PassMarket began a sales commission discount campaign for leisure facility operators to support their infection prevention measures through the use of digital tickets.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Campaign announcement by PassMarket(Japanese only)
July 6, 2020
370,610,274 yen raised for the collaborative donation project launched by video creator HIKAKIN and Yahoo Japan Foundation to support healthcare workers who are working to protect people’s lives. The donation money was used for activities to support front-line healthcare operations, such as support for healthcare workers and purchase of medical supplies.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo Japan Foundation(Japanese only)
July 2, 2020
Donated a total of 10,350,570 yen raised through the “Let’s overcome together –knowing is supporting” campaign to five organizations that support measures against COVID-19.
Press Release(Japanese only)
July 1, 2020
The COVID-19 Benefit Donation Project started the second round of inviting recipients from four fields, including healthcare providers and SMEs.
Press Release(Japanese only)
June 30, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN BEAUTY began posting official information provided by hair salons so that customers can check out photos, sanitation measures taken, special holidays, etc., of the salons in advance.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN BEAUTY promotion page (Japanese only)
June 26, 2020
Began providing “Tokyo COVID-19 Mimamori* Service for Stores” using PassMarket functions.
*Mimamori means “watching over.”
Press Release(Japanese only)
Tokyo COVID-19 Mimamori* Service for Stores(Japanese only)
June 25, 2020
Selected individuals/organization to which the 100 million-yen donation money collected through “COVID-19 Benefit Donation Project,” a drive launched jointly by COVID-19 Benefit Donation Consortium, Public Resources Foundation, Yahoo! JAPAN, and TRUSTBANK, Inc., will be donated.
Press Release(Japanese only)
June 19, 2020
Enabled Yahoo! JAPAN MAP users to check the congestion situations around approx. 2,000 commercial/amusement facilities nationwide.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN MAP (Japanese only)
June 18, 2020
Bid amount at YAHUOKU! Yell Auction for combatting COVID-19 totaled 94,300,669 yen.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yell Auction (Japanese only)
June 16, 2020
Applications started for tenants of Yahoo! JAPAN Shopping and PayPay Mall who wish to use “EAZY,” a new EC delivery service provided by Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. The service allows shoppers to choose from various non-face-to-face delivery methods.
Press Release(Japanese only)
EAZY application webpage for tenants (External website) (Japanese only)
June 9, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Transit Navigation (Android/iOS) started a congestion trend function that shows the congestion levels of trains on a 1-4 scale with icons.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Transit Navigation (Japanese only)
June 5, 2020
Donations to “COVID-19 Benefit Donation Project,” a donation drive launched jointly by COVID-19 Benefit Donation Consortium, Public Resources Foundation, Yahoo! JAPAN, and TRUSTBANK, Inc., reached 100 million yen.
Press Release(Japanese only)
June 4, 2020
Conducted a campaign named “Let’s overcome together – knowing is supporting,” through which 10 yen was donated from Yahoo! JAPAN to organizations supporting measures against COVID-19 each time users liked on COVID-19-related initiatives undertaken by various companies.
Press Release(Japanese only)
”Let’s overcome together – knowing is supporting” (Japanese only)
June 3, 2020
Enabled Yahoo! JAPAN MAP to automatically update the store hour information of about 800,000 stores and 4,600 chain restaurants/retailers nationwide.
Press Release(Japanese only)
June 1, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN began providing a function that indicates the congestion situations around nearby stores, such as grocery stores and pharmacies.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN MAP app (iOS/Android) (Japanese only)
June 1, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN News opened a special webpage “How do we live with coronavirus?” with a view to contributing to solving the various concerns and anxieties that users may have about the “new lifestyle” by inviting their opinions.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Special webpage: “How do we live with coronavirus?” (Japanese only)
May 28, 2020
In response to the growing dining-out needs after the lifting of the state of emergency, Yahoo! JAPAN Loco strengthened sanitation measure information of stores, including the addition of a function to enable store operators to upload photos showing how and what sanitation measures are taken in their stores.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Loco starts providing information on sanitation measures taken by stores/facilities (Japanese only)
May 26, 2020
For the convenience of users, Yahoo! JAPAN Search began displaying important dates relating to the COVID-19 benefit money payout (start dates of mail-out/application/payment, and application deadline) along with search results when users search with keyword “name of municipality + benefit money.”
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Search tips to facilitate your search on COVID-19 (Japanese only)
May 26, 2020
When the state of emergency was lifted nationwide, opened a quiz-based information site on the “new lifestyle” practices against COVID-19: “Let’s overcome together – Learn how to deal with COVID-19 with a quiz!” (PC/smartphone versions).
Press Release(Japanese only)
”Let’s overcome together – Learn how to deal with COVID-19 with a quiz!” (Japanese only)
May 25, 2020
Upgraded the congestion radar of Yahoo! JAPAN MAP to enable the display of congestion situation from 2 hours ago to as recent as 20 minutes ago.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN MAP (Japanese only)
May 25, 2020
Using PassMarket functions, started an admission booking and ticketing function for the reopened Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Nagoya City), as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Press Release(Japanese only)
PassMarket (Japanese only)
May 22, 2020
Added to the Yahoo! JAPAN MAP app (iOS/Android) a poll function that allows users to report whether the restaurants they visited offer take-out meals/drinks.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN MAP app (iOS/Android) (Japanese only)
May 21, 2020
With a video creator HIKAKIN, opened in Yahoo Japan Foundation a collaborative donation account for supporting healthcare workers who are working to protect people’s lives.
※Donations accepted from May 21, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Press Release(Japanese only)
Donation for supporting healthcare workers who are protecting people’s lives (Japanese only)
May 18, 2020
Switched seals and signatures for contracts to e-signatures. Aim to convert all contracts with private entities to e-signatures.
Press Release(Japanese only)
May 18, 2020
<COVID-19 Report>
Released a report on YoY change in number of visitors from neighboring prefectures to Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka and Fukuoka.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Report on visitors from neighboring prefectures to Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka and Fukuoka(Japanese only)
May 13, 2020
Based on information provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, expanded search function to display medical institutions that offer online medical examinations on Yahoo! JAPAN Search, Yahoo! JAPAN MAP app, Yahoo! JAPAN Maps (website ver.), and Yahoo! JAPAN Loco (smartphone ver.)
Press Release(Japanese only)
May 12, 2020
<COVID-19 Report>
Based on data from Yahoo! JAPAN Search, released an analysis on how the state of emergency affected food trend.
Press Release(Japanese only)
How did the Declaration of State of Emergency affect food trend? (Japanese only)
May 12, 2020
Considering the spread of COVID-19, decided to cancel “TOUR de TOHOKU”, a cycling event.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Details of cancellation(Japanese only)
May 11, 2020
As an incorporator, Yahoo! JAPAN joined “Open COVID-19 Declaration”, which declares no assertion of intellectual property rights for a certain period, against any activities whose purpose is stopping the spread of COVID-19, including diagnosis, prevention, containment and treatment.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Open COVID-19 Declaration(External website)
May 8, 2020
COVID-19 Donation Committee, Public Resources Foundation, Yahoo! JAPAN, and TRUSTBANK, Inc. released a website on “COVID-19 Donation Project” in which users can choose where to donate the COVID-19 100,000 yen payment from the government.
Press Release(Japanese only)
COVID-19 Donation Committee website (External website)(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Internet Fund Raising(Japanese only)
COVID-19 Payment Platform produced by TRUSTBANK(External website)(Japanese only)
May 8, 2020
<COVID-19>
For the purpose of having a better view of how self-restraint is exercised, released a reprinting-permitted graph on daily traffic of people by prefecture in Japan.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Website analyzing the traffic of people by prefecture in Japan (External website)(Japanese only)
May 8, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN donated 10 yen for every user who searched the word,“Norikoeyo (Let’s overcome)” in Yahoo! JAPAN Search to activities that support medical workers in the frontline combatting COVID-19.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Let’s overcome together –Search to thank the medical workers – (Japanese only)
May 6, 2020
Distributed a special program “Let’s ask PM Abe! Live broadcast answering everybody’s questions on COVID-19” on Yahoo! JAPAN’s special webpage and “niconico,” a video service operated by Dwango.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Special program with PM Abe (Archive)(Japanese only)
May 1, 2020
Distributed special feature “Homeschool lessons”. Famous athletes, cultural figures held online lessons on craft, scientific experiments, and sports to entertain children and students who had to stay home during the Golden Week.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Special website “Homeschool lessons”(Japanese only)
May 1, 2020
<COVID-19 Report>
Released a report that visualized decrease in crowds in Tokyo and Osaka areas in order to analyze the impact of the stay home request, etc.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Rate of decrease in crowds in Tokyo and Osaka areas, visualized by heat maps(Japanese only)
April 30, 2020
Fisherman Japan, also supported by Yahoo! JAPAN, began selling “Fish Box with Online Lesson on How to Clean Fish” from April 15. Fresh fish that could not be sold due to closure of restaurants were sold by fisherman/fishmongers and home delivered. By the end of April, sold 735 sets (over 2.5 million yen).
Fisherman Japan (External website)(Japanese only)
April 28, 2020
Yahoo Japan Foundation began soliciting programs that support activities to prevent collapse of medical services due to COVID-19. Supports activities under two themes: “Supporting healthcare workers” and “Supporting infection prevention activities”
Yahoo Japan Foundation begins soliciting programs that support activities to prevent collapse of medical services due to COVID-19 (Japanese only)
Support program for activities to prevent collapse of medical services due to COVID-18 (Application guidebook)(Japanese only)
April 28, 2020
Disclosed rates of restraint in people’s movement in the 13 prefectures designated to be on high alert in “COVID-19 Summary” webpage, Yahoo! JAPAN smartphone version, and “Stay Home” tab in Yahoo! JAPAN app.
Press Release(Japanese only)
COVID-19 Summary(Japanese only)
Survey report by Data Solution Service for Business Operators (Japanese only)
April 28, 2020
For event organizers, PassMarket launched a special feature which proposes how to create announcement webpages for online events, how to draw customers, and how to sell e-tickets.
Press Release(Japanese only)
PassMarket(Japanese only)
April 27, 2020
<COVID-19 Report>
Released a report that analyses the search trends in Yahoo! JAPAN Search to see the impact of requests to close schools, etc. and to stay home on children.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Impact of requests to close schools and to stay home on children(Japanese only)
April 27, 2020
In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Yahoo! JAPAN Loco began publishing information on sanitation measures conducted by stores/facilities.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Place(Japanese only)
April 27, 2020
Added function that notifies emergency/crime prevention information from 700+ local governments in Yahoo! JAPAN app. Needed information (e.g. COVID-19 information from local governments) notified in a timely manner.
Press Release(Japanese only)
List of local governments with which disaster alliances are concluded(Japanese only)
April 24, 2020
<COVID-19 Report>
Released a report that analyses weekday transportation trends under the promotion to work remote.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Visualization of changes in weekday transportation trends(Japanese only)
April 24, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Shopping began collaborations with “Hokkaido Gourmet Campaign” which uses online shopping website to support business operators with declined sales due to COVID-19.
Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza website (Yahoo! JAPAN Shopping) (Japanese only)
April 24, 2020
Launched “Stay Home Portal,” a portal website that collects useful content on cooking, education, remote working, etc. to bring convenience and comfort to users who are spending longer time at home.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Stay Home(Japanese only)
April 23, 2020
<COVID-19 Report>
Released a report that analyses search trends related to Golden Week under the request to stay home.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Analysis on search trends related to Golden Week under the request to stay home (Japanese only)
April 23, 2020
Newly created a “Yell Auction” category in YAHUOKU! where users can take part in social contribution activities against COVID-19 by listing their goods. Proceeds from listed goods in this category will be donated to the funds operated by Yahoo Japan Foundation.
Press Release(Japanese only)
Yell Auction(Japanese only)
April 23, 2020
Yahoo Japan Foundation established “COVID-19 Fund to Prevent Collapse of Medical Services” to reduce the burden on healthcare workers.
COVID-19 Fund to Prevent Collapse of Medical Services (Yahoo Japan Foundation)(Japanese only)
Yahoo Japan Foundation(Japanese only)
April 23, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Ads began a campaign to support companies that are unable to conduct their scheduled marketing measures (e.g. cancellation of events and promotional measures) due to the basic COVID-19 measures to refrain from nonessential outings. Advertisers who are posting search ads forthe first time received a 10,000-yen discount in advertising fee.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Supporting new clients with their advertising fees(Japanese only)
April 20, 2020
Released Food Action Special Feature whereby users can support industries in critical conditions due to self-restraint requests for COVID-19 (e.g. food producers and dining industry) through home delivery and donations.
Food Action Special Feature(Japanese only)
April 20, 2020
For a limited time and as open data, Yahoo! JAPAN Data Solution disclosed numbers of persons coming to and going out of 47 prefectures, ordinance-designated cities, etc. and predicted data on year-on-year change for the data to be used to analyze the impact of stay home request, one of COVID-19 measures.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Temporary disclosure of numbers of persons coming to and going out of 47 prefectures, ordinance-designated cities, etc. and predicted data on year-on-year change(Japanese only)
April 20, 2020
Using congestion radar, Yahoo! JAPAN Map app (iOS ver., Android ver.) and Yahoo! JAPAN Maps compared congestions before and after the declaration of state of emergency.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Maps Congestion Radar “To what extent was congestion alleviated after the declaration of state of emergency?” (Japanese only)
April 16, 2020
For the purpose of using the data for analyzing the impact of COVID-19, Yahoo! JAPAN Data Solution released an analysis on people’s movement in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area seen from the search volume of Yahoo! JAPAN Transit Navigation.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Analysis of people’s movement in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area seen from the search volume of Yahoo! JAPAN Transit Navigation(Japanese only)
April 16, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Daily Life selected and introduced systems that have high demand among users based on search trends in Yahoo! JAPAN Search, such as grants and subsidies for COVID-19, and monetary support systems (e.g. loans), etc.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Daily Life,Summary of support systems for COVID-19 (Japanese only)
April 15, 2020
YAHUOKU! held a series of auctions, “Yell Auction”, dedicated to supporting general activities against COVID-19.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Yell Auction (Japanese only)
April 15, 2020
In light of the spread of COVID-19, Yahoo! JAPAN MAP (iOS ver. and Android ver.) added a search function to filter restaurants that provide take-out and delivery services, and expanded the amount of listed information.
Press Release (Japanese only)
April 14, 2020
To support NPOs, Yahoo! JAPAN Internet Fund Raising sequentially launched fund-raising projects to receive donations for “Emergency support for activities against the spread of COVID-19” from January 30, 2020.
(As of April14)
No. of organizations hosting the projects: 15
Donation amount: JPY44,151,235
No. of donations: 49,108
Yahoo! JAPAN Internet Fund Raising (Japanese only)
April 13, 2020
With the precondition of adequately protecting our customers’ privacy, began an initiative that will contribute to the optimization and efficiency of measures against COVID-19 taken by governmental agencies such as the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, by analyzing big data on location information and search/purchase history.
※This was implemented in accordance with our agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which defined the scope of information to be provided, use purposes, and terms and conditions of cooperation. The agreement was signed on April 13, 2020 after the consultation with our privacy advisory board consisting of external experts.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Cooperative project for measures against COVID-19 (Japanese only)
April 10, 2020
To support moves of users who have to go outdoors for inevitable reasons, Yahoo! JAPAN MAP began providing a previously suspended feature “Congestion radar” which displays levels of congestion of specific areas and areas around terminal stations using color gradation.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN MAP (Japanese only)
April 9, 2020
Began providing our data solution services for business free of charge to prefectural governments, etc., so that data can be used in measures against COVID-19.
Press Release (Japanese only)
DS.INSIGHT Program for prefectural governments and designated major cities (Japanese only)
April 7, 2020
<Measure against COVID-19> Disclosed a short report on keywords related to the declaration of state of emergency.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Analysis on search trends for April 6. 2020, related to the declaration of state of emergency (Japanese only)
April 6, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN News launched a project to cheer for persons responding to COVID-19, using its comment columns to allow users to share comments to each other.
Press Release (Japanese only)
#To those on the frontline (Japanese only)
April 3, 2020
Began disclosing daily data on number of visitors, etc. to the 23 wards of Tokyo through our data solution service so that data can be used in analyzing the impact of the request to stay home, a measure against COVID-19.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Temporary disclosure of daily trends on population estimates(overall/visitors/residents) for the 23 wards of Tokyo (Japanese only)
April 3, 2020
Released our response policy towards the request to platform operators from governmental agencies, to provide statistical data, etc. that will contribute to preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Press Release (Japanese only)
March 31, 2020
Sportsnavi released its “Special sports selections,” where users can watch video clips of the High School Baseball Invitational Tournament and FIFA World Cup for free.
Special sports selections, to be enjoyed anytime anywhere (Japanese only)
March 31, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Creators’ Program released a special website to help users enjoy their time at home.
Special selection of video clips featuring ideas to make “stay at home” more enjoyable (Japanese only)
Late March 2020 onwards
Yahoo! JAPAN News created a content curation website that aggregates “Free contents to brighten up ‘stay at home’” and “Places to contact to consult mental disorder during self-isolation”.
New edition of free contents to brighten up “stay at home” (Japanese only)
If you are distressed with COVID-19 and self-quarantine (Japanese only)
March 19, 2020
Placed hand sanitizers, distributed facial masks, checked participants’ body temperatures, and seated participants apart in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our Extraordinary Meeting of the Shareholders.
March 11, 2020
Following the Cabinet approval of the “Cabinet Order to Amend Part of the Act on Emergency Measures for Stabilizing Living Conditions of the Public”, decided to comprehensively ban the listing of facial masks by individual users in our Internet auction service “YAHUOKU!” and flea market app “PayPay Flea Market” from March 11, 2020 until further notice.
Press Release (Japanese only)
March 2, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN Kids launched a website “Yahoo! JAPAN Kids Homeschool” to help the studies of 1st to 6th graders during the temporary closure of many elementary schools in Japan. Provides a search function for children to help with their homework, and videos and photos to help their studies.
Press Release (Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Kids “Homeschool” (Japanese only)
February 20, 2020
Closed our open collaboration space “LODGE” and adjacent restaurant/café.
LODGE (Japanese only)
February 13, 2020
Social Emergency Management Alliance (SEMA) comprised of 53 private enterprises including Yahoo Japan Corporation and 6 citizens’ group began providing support to the cruise ship Diamond Princess anchored in Yokohama Bay on February 13, 2020, and started providing relief supplies on Monday, February 17.
9 companies worked together to provide relief supplies consisted of 1,011 sanitary materials, 1,704 daily necessities and 100 food supplies by March 15.
Press release (Japanese only)
Report on support provided in SEMA’s website (Japanese only)
Early February 2020 onwards
Provided tools for municipalities with which Yahoo! JAPAN has concluded disaster alliances, to provide emergency information (e.g. infection reports) to Yahoo! JAPAN Disaster Alert app and Yahoo! JAPAN Daily Life. The information can also be accessed from COVID-19 curation webpage (Japanese only) and from search results.

Left:Yahoo! JAPAN Disaster Alert app Right:Yahoo! JAPAN Daily Life
Yahoo! JAPAN Disaster Alert app (Japanese only)
Yahoo! JAPAN Daily Life (Japanese only)
Disaster Alliance (Japanese only)
Early February 2020 onwards
Installed a banner in Yahoo! JAPAN Top Page and Yahoo! JAPAN app to navigate users to information on COVID-19.
Yahoo! JAPAN app began displaying targeted information to specific regions if there is information specific to each municipality.

Press Release (Japanese only)
January 30, 2020
Provided information on facts related to COVID-19 and measures to prevent infections in Disaster Prevention Handbook. This handbook is always available in Yahoo! JAPAN Disaster Alert app and Yahoo! JAPAN Weather & Disaster (PC ver. and smartphone browser ver.), and provides useful information for what to do and how to prepare for each type of natural disaster.
Yahoo! JAPAN Weather & Disaster “Preparing for COVID-19” (Japanese only)
January 29, 2020
Yahoo! JAPAN News began updating the latest information on COVID-19 including status reports officially announced by the Prime Minister’s Office of Japan and by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), and compiles media reports. It also began providing information on contact points prepared by the MHLW, each prefecture and the Japan National Tourism Organization.
Yahoo! JAPAN News “Summary of COVID-19” (Japanese only)
January 23, 2020
When users search “coronavirus”, Yahoo! JAPAN Search displays as search results, reliable information provided by public institutions such as MHLW, information overseen by doctors and medical organizations, news articles by major media companies, etc.
Yahoo! JAPAN Search: Search results of “coronavirus” (Japanese only)