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Rikuto Tamai of Japan wins a silver medal in Men's 10 metre platform diving, earning the country its first ever Olympic medal in the sport.
2024-08-10

Due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga extends the state of emergency to Hokkaido, Okayama, and Hiroshima prefectures from May 16 until the end of this month. He alsos declare a quasi-state of emergency in Gunma, Ishikawa, and Kumamoto prefectures from May 16 until June 13.
2021-05-14

Japan reports a record 2,812 new cases in the past 24 hours.
2020-12-9

Typhoon Mindulle is forecast to make landfall near the Japanese capital Tokyo with flights and train services being cancelled. It arrives one day after Typhoon Kompasu.
2016-08-22

A tour bus carrying skiers runs off the road in Japan's Nagano Prefecture with at least 14 people dead and injuring another 27.
2016-01-15

Voters in Japan go to the polls for a House of Councillors (Japan's upper house) election with the governing coalition led by Shinzo Abe winning control of the upper house.
2013-07-21

The United States agrees to a plan to return some land, used by the US Military's Futenma Airbase in Okinawa, to Japan.
2013-04-5

Two Japanese ministers are censured by the House of Councillors over a territorial dispute with China.
2010-11-27

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku calls for the People's Republic of China to compensate for Japanese patrol boats damaged in a confrontation with a Chinese fishing boat in the East China Sea.
2010-09-27

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the southern coast of Japan's Ryukyu Island.
2010-02-26