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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

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is elected for a third term as President of the Liberal Democratic Party.
2018-09-20

North Korea launches two ballistic missiles, one of which explodes immediately after its launch while the main part of the other lands in Japan's economic exclusion zone.
2016-08-3

Heavy snowfall in western and central Japan leaves at least two people dead and over a hundred injured. Snowfall was also recorded for the first time in 155 years on Amami Ōshima, a subtropical island in Japan's southern Kagoshima Prefecture.
2016-01-24

Nissan Motor Co. says it will not use airbag inflators made by Japanese auto parts supplier Takata Corp. in its cars, joining Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.
2015-11-7

Rescuers are searching for seven missing Japanese divers in Bali.
2014-02-15

The European Union and Japan say that they will begin talks to restart free trade between the two entities beginning in April.
2013-03-25

Bookstores in China suspend sales of books by Japanese authors or about Japan.
2012-09-24

Japan declares the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in cold shutdown.
2011-12-16

Japanese air carrier Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection.
2010-01-19