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Heavy rain in Japan causes a landslide in Okaya, Nagano. Three people are dead after the landslide damaged their house. 2021-08-15
Japan's Ministry of Health officially approves the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine, three days after a government panel recommends its approval. This is the first government-approved vaccine in the country. 2021-02-14
Former millionaire Chisako Kakehi (also known as Japan's "Black Widow") is sentenced to death for the murder of 3 men which included a husband. 2017-11-7
Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism called autophagy in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components. 2016-10-3
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Japanese manufacturer of airbags Takata Corp. agree to a five-year consent decree where the company agrees to pay a civil penalty of $70 million and faces as much as $130 million more in fines if it violates the settlement. Twelve automakers are ordered to speed up recalls that so far have only reached about a quarter of the affected cars. 2015-11-3
Japan and China agree to restart mutual visits of their foreign ministers, to hold bilateral high-level economic dialogue early next year, and to work toward early implementation of communication mechanisms between their military forces. 2015-11-1
At least four people are dead as Typhoon Phanfone makes landfall in central Japan. 2014-10-6
The United States agrees to a plan to return some land, used by the US Military's Futenma Airbase in Okinawa, to Japan. 2013-04-5
The United States authorises the first evacuation of Americans from Japan. 2011-03-17
American celebrity Paris Hilton is barred from entering Japan after pleading guilty to cocaine possession in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier in the week. 2010-09-22