Sources: inhabitat
JAXA aborts an Epsilon S engine test after a fire occurs at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 2024-11-26
Seventy-six more deaths and at least 500 hospitalizations in Japan are linked to use of red yeast rice supplements distributed by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, causing kidney disease and other severe conditions. 2024-07-2
The JAXA lunar probe "SLIM" achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing of a Japanese spacecraft. 2024-01-19
JAXA launches the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander from Tanegashima Space Center. The Japanese mission will aim to become the fifth country to perform a soft landing on the Moon. 2023-09-6
JAXA aborts the first launch attempt of the H3 rocket after some of its boosters failed to ignite during the first stage. It is Japan's second failed rocket launch since 2003. 2023-02-17
Japan announces that it will revoke Russia's most favoured nation trade status as part of further sanctions on Russia. 2022-03-16
The Japanese space agency JAXA announces that a pair of 18 cm tall robots successfully landed on asteroid Ryugu. 2018-09-22
A U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes while landing on a U.S. Navy cargo vessel near the Japanese island of Okinawa, with seven people injured. 2015-08-12
The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer "Hayabusa2" from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 to collect rock samples. 2014-12-3
Earthquakes hit off the coasts of Vancouver Island, Cuba, Japan, and New Zealand's north island. 2011-09-15