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The Osaka District Court rules that Japan's ban on same-sex marriage is not "unconstitutional" in a ruling on a lawsuit filed by two male couples and one female couple.
2022-06-20

The death toll from floods in Kyushu, Japan, rises to 49 people. The country is bracing for more heavy rain.
2020-07-6

The Nobel Committee awards Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
2017-10-5

At least 27 people have been pronounced dead after landslides in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture with another ten missing.
2014-08-20

Workers enter one of the buildings at Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant for the first time since an explosion in the days following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-05-5

The bodies of two dead workers are found at the afflicted Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
2011-04-3

The United States and France announce plans to help Japan as Fukushima I nuclear accidents continue.
2011-03-30

Japan attempts to restore electric power to two crippled reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to combat ongoing problems.
2011-03-18

Another fire breaks out at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in northern Honshu, Japan.
2011-03-16

American celebrity Paris Hilton is barred from entering Japan after pleading guilty to cocaine possession in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier in the week.
2010-09-22