BREAKING NEWS: About 650 Japanese in Wuhan want to return home: foreign minister Motegi
 
BREAKING NEWS: Japan to send charter flight for Japanese in Wuhan later Tuesday; flight to return to Tokyo on Wed.
 
BREAKING NEWS: Death toll in China from coronavirus reaches 106, over 4,000 infected: media

TOKYO - Japan on Tuesday classified pneumonia caused by a new deadly coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan as a "designated infectious disease" that legally allows compulsory hospitalization amid a steep rise in overseas infections.