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Japan reports a record for the third consecutive day of 25,876 new cases of COVID-19.
2021-08-20

In golf, 19-year-old Yuka Saso of the Philippines wins this year's championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, after coming back from two double-bogeys to beat Japan's Nasa Hataoka in the third hole of a sudden death playoff. Saso is the first Filipino player to win a major golf championship and equals South Korea's Inbee Park as the youngest champion of the U.S. Women's Open.
2021-06-6

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, causing tsunami waves of up to 1 m. As a precaution, Tohoku Electric Power shuts down the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant and Tokyo Electric Power Company checks the condition of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was struck by the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.
2021-03-20

Mount Kirishima in Kyushu, Japan, erupts. It is the first time it has erupted since 1768.
2018-04-19

Mark Karpelès, the CEO of defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is charged with embezzlement in Japan. Karpeles asserts his own innocence. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150911-japan-charges-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-with-embezzlement-jiji-press?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-09-11&dlvrit=66745 (AFP via France 24)]date=August 2019
2015-09-11

The speech by Japanese Emperor Hirohito announcing the unconditional surrender of Japan is released in digital form.
2015-08-1

The finals of the robot football World Cup are held. A Chinese team defeats the Netherlands in the finals of the middle-weight non-humanoid league, while another lost in the final of the small humanoid class to a team from Japan.
2015-07-22

Japan announces plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic during the southern hemisphere summer. Commercial whaling has been banned for over 30 years by the International Whaling Commission.
2015-06-22

Using H-IIA rocket, Japan launches two spy satellites to collect sharp imagery for the government's defence and intelligence agency.
2013-01-27

Injections of nitrogen into one of the reactors at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant begins in an effort to stop further hydrogen blasts.
2011-04-7