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An avalanche on Mount Norikura in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, kills two people, including American skier Kyle Smaine.
2023-01-29

Japan reports a record 15,812 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-08-11

Authorities arrest a Japanese man for killing as many as 48 elderly patients at the Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama.
2016-10-2

The Governor of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, Takeshi Onaga, revokes permission given by a predecessor for landfill work to replace a United States Marine Corps base.
2015-10-13

A South Korean man is seriously injured after self-immolation during a protest against Japan's use of South Korean women as sex slaves during World War II.
2015-08-12

South Korea and Japan temporarily halt some military cooperation programs in a long-running dispute over control of the Liancourt Rocks. South Korea's first fleet plans a "biannual" drill around the area from September 7 to 11.
2012-09-3

Japan lodges a formal protest with China after the presence of the latter's patrol boats near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2012-07-11

Japan shuts down its last nuclear reactor, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970.
2012-05-5

Researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light, the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another in a Schrödinger's cat experiment.
2011-04-15