The 2025 World Athletics Championships start in Tokyo, Japan. 2025-09-13
A schoolgirl in Lyon, France, is reportedly sent home for wearing a traditional Japanese kimono as the nation implements a controversial law banning the display of religious symbols in public schools. 2023-09-6
Two soldiers are killed and another is injured during a live fire exercise at a training area in Gifu, Japan, as a recruit opens fire at them. The suspect is apprehended and charged with the attempted murder of a soldier. 2023-06-14
South Korea agrees to pay compensation to citizens who were forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II. 2023-03-6
Japan detects possible community spread of the B.1.1.7 variant in three people from Shizuoka with no known travel history. 2021-01-18
Japan reports 47 new deaths in the past 24 hours, a new single-day record since the beginning of the pandemic. 2020-12-8
Typhoon Jongdari hits central and western Japan, injuring at least 21 people and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. The typhoon is the latest in the series of weather events to affect the country, following devastating floods and a fatal heat wave earlier in the month. 2018-07-29
The Governor of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, Takeshi Onaga, revokes permission given by a predecessor for landfill work to replace a United States Marine Corps base. 2015-10-13
A South Korean man is seriously injured after self-immolation during a protest against Japan's use of South Korean women as sex slaves during World War II. 2015-08-12
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