Sources: BBC
The Supreme Court of Japan upholds the Tokyo High Court's order to dissolve the Unification Church. 2026-06-22
The opening ceremony for the 2025 World Expo is held in Osaka, Japan, which includes pavilions for 160 countries. 2025-04-13
Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku announces the country's first fin whale kill in fifty years off the coast of Iwate Prefecture. 2024-08-6
Japan reports a record 4,915 new cases in the past 24 hours. In addition, a record 76 deaths are also reported in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-5
Typhoon Faxai kills three people and causes damage to Japan's capital Tokyo. 2019-09-9
After Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe insisted North Korea settle the issue of Japanese citizens adbucted by North Korea, North Korean state media KCNA accuses Japan of disrupting peace efforts before the planned North Korea–U.S. summit. 2018-05-12
An avalanche on Mount Nasu in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture, kills at least eight schoolchildren while the students were on a mountaineering excursion. There are three students and three teachers missing. 2017-03-27
Thousands of people are evacuated on the Japanese island of Hokkaido as Typhoon Choi-wan approaches from the east. 2015-10-8
The governments of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands protest the start of Japan's whaling season off the coast of Antarctica. 2011-12-14
New Zealander Peter Bethune, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who captained the "Ady Gil" when it crashed with the MV "Shonan Maru 2" and sank, encounters coastguards, police and protesters as he arrives on the Japanese mainland. 2010-03-13