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A court in Japan sentences Shinji Aoba to death for a 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, which killed 36 people.
2024-01-25

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

The Japanese government officially approves the use of the Moderna and Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for people aged 18 and older. It comes after the Health Ministry panel recommended the approval of both vaccines.
2021-05-21

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe says inter-Korea talks could be a "meaningless" ploy by North Korea.
2018-03-8

Rescuers find the bodies of seven United States Navy sailors who were missing after the prior day's collision between the USS "Fitzgerald" and the MV "ACX Crysta"l off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan.
2017-06-18

At least three people die, 27 are injured, and 26 people are missing, the majority of them in and around Jōsō city in Ibaraki Prefecture, as a result of floods and landslides in Japan after heavy rainfall caused by Tropical Storm Etau.
2015-09-11

Japan imposes additional sanctions on Russia due to the Ukraine conflict and a visit by an aide of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to a contested island off the coast off northern Japan.
2014-09-24

China suspends high level diplomatic exchanges with Japan after the latter extended the detention of a Chinese fishing captain.
2010-09-19

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

Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii resigns at the age of 77 due to ill health. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-asia-pacific-8442743.stm (BBC)] [http:--home.kyodo.co.jp-modules-fstStory-index.php?storyid=478942 (Kyodo)]date=July 2019
2010-01-6