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The Bank of Japan reports that inflation in Japan increased by 4.0% in December, the highest recorded increase since 1981.
2023-01-20

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is elected for a third term as President of the Liberal Democratic Party.
2018-09-20

North Korea launches two ballistic missiles, one of which explodes immediately after its launch while the main part of the other lands in Japan's economic exclusion zone.
2016-08-3

Heavy snowfall in western and central Japan leaves at least two people dead and over a hundred injured. Snowfall was also recorded for the first time in 155 years on Amami Ōshima, a subtropical island in Japan's southern Kagoshima Prefecture.
2016-01-24

Rescuers are searching for seven missing Japanese divers in Bali.
2014-02-15

Japan's stock market index, the Nikkei 225, hits its highest level in almost five years, after a Bank of Japan stimulus plan raises hope of economic revival.
2013-04-5

Haruhiko Kuroda is selected by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to lead the Bank of Japan.
2013-02-28

Bookstores in China suspend sales of books by Japanese authors or about Japan.
2012-09-24

Japan declares the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in cold shutdown.
2011-12-16

"The New York Times" carries claims by anonymous sources that the Bank of Japan is said to be considering a further easing of monetary policy, and the government of Japan may intervene in markets to push the value of the yen down.
2011-08-21