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Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya loses a bid to continue competing in the games as she was granted a humanitarian visa by Poland while the International Olympic Committee begins an investigation. Tsimanouskaya, who refused to fly back to Belarus, entered the Polish embassy in Tokyo on Sunday and requested temporary asylum in Japan. Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi assured Tsimanouskaya that Japan had taken measures to protect her.
2021-08-3

Tokyo reports a record for the second consecutive day of 3,177 new cases of COVID-19.
2021-07-28

The government extends the COVID-19 state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the capital Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, for the next two weeks until March 21 as the number of new cases have not fallen sufficiently in order to lift the emergency.
2021-03-5

Aquatic species from Japan hitched a ride on debris from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and were able to reach the West Coast of the United States alive.
2017-09-28

Levels of radiation in Tokyo's water supply return to normal.
2011-03-26

Radiation levels 20km from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant measured at 1600 times normal levels.
2011-03-22

A small amount of radiation is found on vegetables exported from Japan to Taiwan but the amount is too small to harm human health. [http:--www.theguardian.pe.ca-Canada---World-Business-2011-03-20-article-2347183-Taiwan-says-radiation-detected-on-batch-of-Japanese-peas,-but-levels-not-harmful-1 (Canadian Press via "Prince Edward Island Guardian")]date=August 2019
2011-03-20

The death toll from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rises to 4,277 with at least 8,194 missing.
2011-03-16

A magnitude 6.2 aftershock hits Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture southwest of Tokyo.
2011-03-15

Quake survivors flee south from northern Japan describing the situation in their hometowns as "unimaginable."
2011-03-12