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Japan reports a record 23,917 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, with new records also being reported in 27 prefectures.
2021-08-18

Japan reports 2,684 new cases in the past 24 hours, a new single-day record since the beginning of the outbreak.
2020-11-28

The death toll of the heat wave in Japan rises to 57, while 18,347 others are hospitalized.
2019-08-7

In order to make sea room for expanding berthing facilities in Trincomalee Harbour, the Sri Lankan navy raises the SS "Sagaing", a British passenger ship sunk when it was bombed in an April 1942 Japanese air strike during World War II.
2018-03-31

Cuba defends North Korea by circulating an amendment to a European-Japanese draft resolution recommending the referral of North Korea to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
2014-11-13

A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks occur off the coast of Honshu in Japan.
2011-09-17

The "Mainichi Shimbun" reports that Japan and the United States are planning to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Mongolia.
2011-05-9

U.S. entertainers Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are stopped by immigrations at a Japanese airport and forbidden to enter the country due to Paris's drug conviction the day prior.
2010-09-21

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns after breaking his campaign promise to remove a United States military base from Okinawa.
2010-06-2