Sources: BBC
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, killing 55 people. A tsunami warning is issued for multiple prefectures along the Sea of Japan. 2024-01-1
Flooding in Japan kills nine people in Chiba and one more in Fukushima, with a further person missing in the latter. 2019-10-26
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe makes a landmark visit to Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, offering "sincere and everlasting condolences" to the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese empire on December 7, 1941. 2016-12-27
Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece." 2016-03-20
Representatives from the United States, Japan and South Korea meet in Seoul on how to respond to North Korea's nuclear weapons program. 2015-05-27
Japan vows to continue its whaling program despite passage of an anti-whaling vote in the International Whaling Commission. 2014-09-19
The United States reclaims its spot as the top export market for Japan as China slips due to economic slowdown. Japan's overall annual trade deficit meanwhile reaches 8.2 trillion yen, the highest on record. 2013-04-18
Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. 2013-03-17
Nine North Korean defectors arrive in South Korea after staying in Japan for three weeks. 2011-10-4
Nicolas Sarkozy of France plans to invest €1 billion in nuclear power despite the devastation caused by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. 2011-06-27