Sources: The Guardian
Six people are killed and eight others are missing in floods and landslides caused by record rainfall in the Noto Peninsula of Japan. 2024-09-22
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 executes a foreigner for the first time since the disclosure of details of its sentences began in 2007. He was a Chinese man convicted of killing a family of four. 2019-12-26
Typhoon Goni makes landfall in southwestern Japan with at least 26 people injured but no people killed. The death toll in the Philippines rises to 21 while South Korea is on alert. 2015-08-25
Supertyphoon Vongfong becomes the most intense storm of the year as it heads for Japan. 2014-10-7
A fire in a hospital in Japan's Fukuoka prefecture kills ten people. 2013-10-11
The Japanese Diet votes to extend its session until August 31 so that it can consider key legislation. 2011-06-22
Rival demonstrations take place in China and Japan over the disputed Senkaku Islands. 2010-10-23
Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada dismisses Australia's threat to take the country to the International Court of Justice over Japan's whaling in the Antarctic. 2010-02-21
Japanese prosecutors question Representative Ichirō Ozawa over an alleged party funding scandal. 2010-01-23