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A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 aircraft collides with a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 aircraft and bursts into flames at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight are evacuated, while five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft are killed.
2024-01-2

Two soldiers are killed and another is injured during a live fire exercise at a training area in Gifu, Japan, as a recruit opens fire at them. The suspect is apprehended and charged with the attempted murder of a soldier.
2023-06-14

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

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

A North Korean fishing boat collides with a Japanese Fisheries Agency vessel and sinks off Japan. At least 20 North Koreans are pulled from the water. The Japanese ship had been attempting to warn the North Korean vessel away from Japanese territory.
2019-10-7

Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years following the country's withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission. At least 227 whales are expected to be killed through to December.
2019-07-1

A referendum was held in Osaka, Japan to mandate the implementation of the Osaka Metropolis plan. The proposal was defeated by 50.38% to 49.62%. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto announced retirement from politics by the end of his term in December 2015.
2015-05-17

A court in Japan's Fukui Prefecture issues a landmark injunction against restarting reactors 3 and 4 of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant.
2015-04-14

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his team of researchers find the "Musashi", one of Japan's biggest and most famous battleships which was sunk by American forces in 1944, on the floor of the Sibuyan Sea.
2015-03-4

Japan suffers negative economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2011 making it three out of four quarters that the Japanese economy shrinks.
2012-02-13