Sources: The Australian
The 1,200-year-old Reikado Hall in the Daishō-in temple complex in Itsukushima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, burns down completely. 2026-05-20
North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile towards Japan, prompting evacuation warnings for residents in the prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata. The missile landed about 1100 km off the Japanese coast in the Pacific Ocean, with the launch likely not successful. 2022-11-3
Ten people are dead and 16 more are missing as a sightseeing boat sinks off Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. 2022-04-23
The United States Armed Forces order all personnel stationed in Japan to wear masks when traveling off-base amid criticism of their handling of the increase in COVID-19 cases in areas where they are based in large numbers, such as Okinawa and Iwakuni. 2022-01-6
Japan reports a record for the second consecutive day of 18,822 new cases of COVID-19. 2021-08-12
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces that the state of emergency will be lifted in nine prefectures on June 21. However, the government will maintain its quasi-emergency measures in seven prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka. 2021-06-17
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe makes a landmark visit to Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, offering "sincere and everlasting condolences" to the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese empire on December 7, 1941. 2016-12-27
Japan approves a thirty-to-forty year plan to clean up the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. 2015-06-12
At least 18 people are dead and 45 people are missing in Japan after Typhoon Wipha hit yesterday. 2013-10-17
Jun Azumi, the Minister of Finance of Japan, says he is to step down and take on a senior function as the acting secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Japan. His announcement comes ahead of an expected cabinet reshuffle. 2012-09-24