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Japan and the United States finalize a $2.35 billion deal for the latter to export 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles to the former.
2023-11-17

South Korea reports that it now holds the world's largest number of standard-essential patents followed by the United States, Finland, and Japan. Standard-essential patents refer to major technologies that are vital in producing standardized products and that must be verified by standards organizations.
2021-05-9

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga receives his first dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine ahead of an April visit to the United States to meet President Joe Biden.
2021-03-16

Japan says it will not join the U.S.-led International Maritime Security Construct to protect international shipping in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian aggression, but will instead deploy its own Maritime Self-Defense Force to the region to guard merchant vessels "related to Japan".
2019-10-18

Four people are dead and at least 120 others are injured when Typhoon Trami makes landfall in the cities of Osaka and Okinawa, Japan.
2018-09-30

Over 50,000 people protest in Okinawa capital Naha against U.S. military presence on the Japanese island, spurred on by last month's arrest of an U.S. Marine veteran, civilian contractor for the rape and killing of a 20-year-old local woman.
2016-06-19

Representatives from the United States, Japan and South Korea meet in Seoul on how to respond to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
2015-05-27

The United States and France announce plans to help Japan as Fukushima I nuclear accidents continue.
2011-03-30

Voters in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, go to the polls for the gubernatorial election with anti-US base governor Hirokazu Nakaima reelected.
2010-11-28

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns after breaking his campaign promise to remove a United States military base from Okinawa.
2010-06-2