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One person is killed in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and hundreds of people are evacuated as Typhoon Halong makes landfall in the Izu Islands.
2025-10-9

The Association of National Olympic Committees cancels the World Beach Games scheduled next month in Bali, Indonesia, due to the host nation's withdrawal over budgetary issues.
2023-07-4

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 allocates 820 billion yen ($6.8 billion) for creating a nearly 400-kilometer (250-mile) chain of cement seawalls, at places nearly five stories high, against future tsunami disasters such as the one that struck the country's northeastern coast four years ago.
2015-03-22

The European Union and Japan say that they will begin talks to restart free trade between the two entities beginning in April.
2013-03-25

In Japan, Koriki Jojima is appointed as the new finance minister and Seiji Maehara as the new minister of national strategy and economic policy.
2012-10-1

Japan is to deport 14 pro-China activists who landed on the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2012-08-16

Takeaki Matsumoto is sworn in as the Foreign Minister of Japan, replacing Seiji Maehara who resigned following a political donations scandal.
2011-03-9

Thousands demonstrate against Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit, against the background of a dispute between Japan and China over islands in the East China Sea, condemning “Chinese imperialism” while waving the flags Tibet, East Turkestan and south Mongolia.
2010-11-13