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A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Taiwan, prompting tsunami warnings for Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. A large section of the uninhabited Guishan Island collapses into the ocean. Nine people are killed in Taiwan, including four by rockfalls, with more than 930 others injured.
2024-04-3

Japan reports its first five cases of the "double mutant" Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India.
2021-04-22

Japanese citizens head to the polls to elect one half of the members of the country's House of Councillors.
2019-07-21

Japanese supercentenarian Kane Tanaka is officially recognized as the world's oldest living person at 116 years and 67 days old.
2019-03-9

Israel donates 300 books relating to Anne Frank to Japan after a vandalising incident earlier this month.
2014-02-27

"Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" is released in Japan as fans of Haruki Murakami queue at midnight outside Tokyo bookshops.
2013-04-12

Japan executes by hanging three convicted murderers, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiro Kanagawa and Keiki Muto. The number of death-row inmates in Japan now stands at 134.
2013-02-21

Japan renews a territorial claim over Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima-Dokdo), which South Korea also claims to be part of its territory.
2012-04-6

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

A fifth outbreak of bird flu occurs in Japan, with a cull of 150,000 chickens underway.
2011-01-27