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Japan raises the age of consent from 13 to 16 and criminalises voyeurism.
2023-06-16

Japan launches a ¥70 billion payment scheme to pay firms to move factories out of China to either Japan itself or countries within the Southeast Asian region in an attempt to better secure its supply chains. 57 firms, including face mask manufacturer Iris Ohyama, are among the first to receive the subsidy.
2020-07-18

The death toll from an intense heat wave in Japan rises to 77.
2018-07-23

United States president Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka visits Japan.
2017-11-3

The Obama administration agrees to have the United States Armed Forces assist Japan on conducting joint patrols in the South China Sea.
2016-09-16

Hakubun Shimomura resigns as Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology due to the design for the stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics being abandoned.
2015-09-25

Following the controversial discovery of genetically modified wheat on a U.S. farm on May 29, Japan suspends imports of wheat from the U.S.
2013-05-30

Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters form a human chain around the Japanese parliament in Tokyo.
2012-07-29

About 700 anti-nuclear activists hold a die-in on the border of France and Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan.
2011-04-25