Sources: The Guardian
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, killing one person and injuring 22 others. 2023-05-5
President Joko Widodo visits China for diplomatic talks, formally inviting President Xi Jinping to the G20 summit in Bali. Widodo will also visit Japan and South Korea on the trip. 2022-07-26
Japan reports a record 32,197 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. 2022-01-18
Japan reports a record 15,812 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2021-08-11
Japan's Kagawa Prefecture will cull 850,000 chickens at two poultry farms after the country reported its first bird flu outbreak in more than two years. It will be the sixth and seventh cases of avian flu in the prefecture and the biggest culling to be done at once. 2020-11-20
President Barack Obama is set on visiting Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines after previously cancelling his trip in 2013. 2014-02-13
Police in Japan arrest Katsuya Takahashi of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, the last fugitive wanted over the March 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people. 2012-06-15
Japan shuts down its last nuclear reactor, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970. 2012-05-5
Japan officially suspends its whaling program for the season due to interference by the Sea Shepherd conservation organisation. 2011-02-18