Sources: BBC
Prosecutors in Japan charge the 42-year-old accused killer of former prime minister Shinzo Abe with murder. Additional charges are expected after the man was found competent by psychiatrists earlier this week. 2023-01-13
Japan announces that it will cull 143,000 chickens after reporting an outbreak of the "highly pathogenic avian influenza" at a poultry farm in Yokote, Akita Prefecture. 2021-11-10
Japan reports its first five cases of the "double mutant" Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India. 2021-04-22
Japan records a new single-day record of 3,041 cases. The Japan Self-Defense Forces are deployed to Asahikawa, Hokkaido, where hospitals are facing shortages of medical staff to treat COVID-19 patients. 2020-12-12
The President of the Japan Football Association and deputy Olympic Committee chief Kozo Tashima tests positive for COVID-19. Japan insists the 2020 Summer Olympics will still go ahead as planned. 2020-03-17
During his 23 to 26 November journey to Japan, Pope Francis visits Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The only pope to previously visit Japan was Pope John Paul II from 23–26 February 1981. 2019-11-23
Japan orders its military to shoot down any North Korean missiles that threaten to strike Japan at anytime, and is placing its forces on a state of alert for at least three months, according to a Ministry of Defense official. 2016-08-8
Japan attempts to restore electric power to two crippled reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to combat ongoing problems. 2011-03-18
A computer glitch temporarily halts all bullet trains in northern and central Japan, affecting thousands of passengers. 2011-01-17
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama makes an apology for breaking an election promise to get rid of a U.S. military base located in Okinawa which he and the United States believe is "needed to guarantee regional security". Demonstrators affected by this failure order him to "go home". 2010-05-23