Japan's Nikkei 225 stock market index falls by more than 12%, suffering its worst two-day decline ever and its largest daily percentage drop since Black Monday in October 1987. 2024-08-5
Police in Tokyo, Japan, arrest a former member of the 2020 Summer Olympics organising committee after prosecutors accused him of graft and bribery. 2022-08-17
Japan begins administering fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for medical staff and care workers for the elderly. 2022-07-23
Japan closes its border to all newly arrived foreigners and requires its citizens to quarantine on arrival from countries where cases of the Omicron variant have been detected due to fears of the variant. 2021-11-30
The Japanese Diet passes an anti-terrorism law that has been accused by critics as a threat to freedom. 2017-06-15
The United States military says it will shortly return 4,000 hectares of its Okinawa military installation, 17 percent of the area it controls, to the Japanese government. 2016-07-29
Two South Korean airlines, Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, will resume flights to Japan after suspending flights during the recent MERS outbreak. 2015-07-15
Japan approves a thirty-to-forty year plan to clean up the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. 2015-06-12
Japan accuses three Chinese surveillance ships of entering the territorial waters of Tokyo-controlled Senkaku Islands. 2013-04-1
Scientists discover that the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae), a Japanese salmon subspecies which scientists had thought had gone extinct in 1940, has still a living population in 2010. [http:--www.nbc29.com-Global-story.asp?S=13674873 (Associated Press)]date=August 2019 2010-12-15