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The JAXA lunar probe "SLIM" achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing of a Japanese spacecraft.
2024-01-19

A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 aircraft collides with a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 aircraft and bursts into flames at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight are evacuated, while five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft are killed.
2024-01-2

Six people are killed and three others are reported missing after heavy rains trigger landslides in Kyushu and Chūgoku, Japan.
2023-07-10

North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile towards Japan, prompting evacuation warnings for residents in the prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata. The missile landed about 1100 km off the Japanese coast in the Pacific Ocean, with the launch likely not successful.
2022-11-3

The death toll from recent torrential rain and flooding in Kyushu in southern Japan rises to 25.
2017-07-11

At least four people are dead as Typhoon Phanfone makes landfall in central Japan.
2014-10-6

The United States reclaims its spot as the top export market for Japan as China slips due to economic slowdown. Japan's overall annual trade deficit meanwhile reaches 8.2 trillion yen, the highest on record.
2013-04-18

Japan officially suspends its whaling program for the season due to interference by the Sea Shepherd conservation organisation.
2011-02-18

Newly released cables from Australian intelligence show the intelligence assessment that charges of sodomy laid against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim are due to a "set up job" that he "walked into". Others refer to Malaysia as a "confused and dangerous" state, Thai politicians as corrupt and Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn as "very erratic and easily subject to influence", and Japan as a "big fat loser".
2010-12-12

Japan doubles a state-sponsored credit line to troubled airline Japan Airlines to Y200bn (US$2.2bn).
2010-01-3