Sources: CNN
Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet. 2025-07-20
The United States expels 21 Royal Saudi Air Force cadets. Amid an investigation into the Saudi Arabian military following the attack on Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, the cadets were found to have jihadist material and child pornography on their phones. However, none of the cadets are believed to have assisted the gunman in the attack. 2020-01-13
The National Diet of Japan passes legislation allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate. The abdication is to take place within three years. 2017-06-9
Thousands protest outside the Japanese parliament in Tokyo against the relocation of a U.S. military base on Okinawa Island. Residents cite noise, pollution, and crime as reasons for not wanting a new base built. 2016-02-21
Japan's upper chamber of Parliament approves controversial legislation, which the lower chamber passed in July, that expands the role of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces overseas. 2015-09-19
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle reaches a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors in Indianapolis. Fogle will plead guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls. Under the deal, he will serve from 5 to 12½ years in prison, and will also pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 victims. 2015-08-20
The National Diet of Japan votes to lower the voting age from 20 to 18. 2015-06-17
Survivors of child sexual abuse carried out by priests react with fury after Pope Benedict XVI's claims that pedophilia wasn't considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s and that society considers child pornography "normal". 2010-12-21
Approximately 107 people are charged with possessing offensive child pornography in Austria. 2010-12-19
An investigation reveals that several dozen staff and contractors of the United States Department of Defense, some with high-level security clearances, allegedly downloaded child pornography; an undisclosed number did so on government-owned computers. 2010-07-24