Sources: inhabitat
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
The Japanese space agency JAXA announces that a pair of 18 cm tall robots successfully landed on asteroid Ryugu. 2018-09-22
Typhoon Lan makes landfall in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, causing at least two deaths and 10 injuries. 2017-10-23
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
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan with a tsunami warning issued and then retracted. 2011-08-19
The Japanese Diet votes to extend its session until August 31 so that it can consider key legislation. 2011-06-22
Japan's Sendai Airport partially reopens for the first time since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 2011-04-13
Scientists discover that the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae), a Japanese salmon subspecies which scientists had thought had gone extinct in 1940, has still a living population in 2010. [http:--www.nbc29.com-Global-story.asp?S=13674873 (Associated Press)]date=August 2019 2010-12-15