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Thousands of Japanese people protest at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over multiple alleged sexual assault cases involving U.S. service members against Japanese people on Okinawa Island.
2024-06-28

Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura and five Afghans are killed in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan when militants open fire on their car while they were travelling to monitor a project.
2019-12-4

Sakie Yokota, the mother of a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea 42 years ago at the age of 13, appeals directly to Kim Jong-un to release her and all Japanese abductees. She also decries the lack of Japanese government action on the issue.
2019-11-15

Junpei Yasuda, a Japanese journalist kidnapped by Al-Nusra Front in Syria, is released.
2018-10-24

Japanese citizens vote in a general election. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner win 325 seats out of 475 and thus a new term.
2014-12-14

Bob Brown, former leader of the Australian Greens, becomes the President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society leading the campaign against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.
2013-01-8

A small humanoid robot that can talk will be sent into space to provide conversational company for Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on a six-month mission to the ISS during Soyuz TMA-11M in 2013. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20121130-robot-buddy-keep-japan-astronaut-company (AFP via France24)]date=August 2019
2012-11-30

Chinese and Japanese diplomats meet in Beijing to lay out their respective countries' positions on the Senkaku Islands dispute.
2012-09-25

At his trial Japanese man Tatsuya Ichihashi admits to killing British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker whose body was found in a bathtub in 2007.
2011-07-4

The Russian Federal Space Agency successfully launches a Soyuz TMA-02M carrying a Russian, American and Japanese astronaut towards the International Space Station.
2011-06-8