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Japan begins administering fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for medical staff and care workers for the elderly.
2022-07-23

The Osaka District Court rules that Japan's ban on same-sex marriage is not "unconstitutional" in a ruling on a lawsuit filed by two male couples and one female couple.
2022-06-20

A gas blast in a restaurant in Sapporo, Japan, injures 42 people.
2018-12-16

The International Criminal Court rejects a petition to investigate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for war crimes. The petition by Japanese families of alleged victims was turned down because the alleged wrongdoing predates Japan's 2007 joining of the ICC.
2018-04-6

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announces Russia plans to build a new military base on the Kuril Islands, a group of Pacific islands it seized from Japan at the end of World War II.
2015-10-22

Japan imposes additional sanctions on Russia due to the Ukraine conflict and a visit by an aide of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to a contested island off the coast off northern Japan.
2014-09-24

The Cabinet of Japan approves a bill to put a 40-year cap on the life of nuclear reactors following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
2012-01-31

Japanese optical and imaging equipment company Olympus faces a possible credit downgrade and plunging share prices, due to a spreading scandal over the recent dismissal of its chief executive, Michael Woodford.
2011-10-20

The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Japan to announce US assistance for the recovery effort following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-04-17

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologises over a fundraising scandal.
2011-03-4