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The Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan, is completed.
2024-03-16

Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan, threatening the coasts of Okinawa and the island of Kyushu. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government is setting up a crisis response team and urges people to take precautions. Officials compare the typhoon to Typhoon Vera, which in 1959 killed more than 5,000 people.
2020-09-5

Japan warns on Saturday that the new North Korean projectiles have trajectories that are not typical for conventional ballistic missiles, making them difficult or impossible to intercept en route to Japan.
2019-07-27

Moody's Investors Service downgrades the credit rating of the People's Republic of China from AA3 to A1.
2017-05-24

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

Fitch Ratings downgrades Japan's credit rating to A over mounting debts.
2015-04-27

For the first time ever, Moody's Investors Service downgrades the United Kingdom's bond credit rating from AAA to AA1.
2013-02-22

Moody's Investors Service downgrades the credit ratings of several European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain and issues a negative outlook for the ratings of Austria, France and the United Kingdom.
2012-02-13

Moody's credit rating agency downgrades Japan to Aa3 due to weak economic growth prospects and high levels of public debt.
2011-08-24

Moody's Investors Service cuts the credit ratings of Australia's four major banks, the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank and ANZ, to Aa1, due to their reliance on wholesale funding.
2011-05-18