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The United States Forces Japan announces that American troops in the country will begin vaccinations and prioritize front-line medical workers.
2020-12-28

Japanese car manufacturer Nissan suspends production indefinitely at its major Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK plant in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, over the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-03-20

A judicial source close to former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn says that Lebanon and Japan will have 40 days to decide whether he will be extradited back to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon.
2020-01-23

During his 23 to 26 November journey to Japan, Pope Francis visits Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The only pope to previously visit Japan was Pope John Paul II from 23–26 February 1981.
2019-11-23

Due to a change in Japanese legislation, Airbnb announces that it will be cancelling thousands of reservations made in the country.
2018-06-8

John Kerry, along with the other Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers, laid wreaths at Japan's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to the victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Kerry is the first Secretary of State to visit the memorial. Then-U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi was previously the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the memorial, in 2008. The Hiroshima foreign ministers meeting is part of the preparations for the 42nd G7 summit the end of next month at Japan's Kashiko Island, Shima, Mie Prefecture.
2016-04-11

Many people throughout the world commemorate the 70th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
2015-08-6

Fund for Peace releases its 2012 Failed States Index, with Libya, Japan, and Syria scoring the largest increases since the previous study.
2012-06-20

The Tokyo Electric Power Company announces rolling blackouts caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan.
2011-03-14

The BBC apologises after offending the sensibilities of Japanese viewers by broadcasting jokes targeting Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb attacks carried out by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
2011-01-23