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Japan officially lifts the COVID-19 state of emergency in Aichi, Gifu, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, and Fukuoka prefectures due to a decrease in the number of cases, while Tokyo and surrounding areas will remain in a state of emergency until at least March 7.
2021-02-28

The death toll from recent torrential rain and flooding in Kyushu in southern Japan rises to 25.
2017-07-11

Rescuers find the bodies of seven United States Navy sailors who were missing after the prior day's collision between the USS "Fitzgerald" and the MV "ACX Crysta"l off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan.
2017-06-18

Japanese scientists discover that mouse sperm held on the International Space Station for 9 months is able to produce healthy mice.
2017-05-22

Campaigning gets underway in Japan for the House of Councillors election with voting to start on July 21.
2013-07-4

Typhoon Ma-on hits Japan, landing in Tokushima Prefecture; at least 47 people are injured and 1 person is left missing before the typhoon is downgraded to a tropical storm.
2011-07-20

Japan's Jiji Press reports that the country will conduct stress tests for all nuclear reactors in the country.
2011-07-6

Sony advises that it plans to restore the PlayStation Network by the weekend in all markets except Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
2011-05-31

About 700 anti-nuclear activists hold a die-in on the border of France and Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan.
2011-04-25