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Japanese electronics company Toshiba is delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after 74 years.
2023-12-20

Kioxia, the Japanese computer memory manufacturer spun off from Toshiba, postpones its initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, citing the volatility of the semiconductor industry caused by both the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing trade war between China and the United States. Its initial public offering, which would have launched on October 6, was projected to be Japan's largest for this year.
2020-09-28

South Korea halts its World Trade Organization complaint concerning Japan's tightened export controls of key chemicals South Korea uses for computer chips and displays.
2019-11-22

Officials from Japan and South Korea hold their second round of trade talks as part of the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement process.
2019-11-19

Interstellar Technologies successfully launches uncrewed rocket MOMO-3 from its launch facility in Taiki, Hokkaido, becoming the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach the Kármán line.
2019-05-4

The names of 3,607 employees of Unit 731, a Japanese military medical experimentation unit associated with war crimes during World War II, are released. Prosecutors in the United States had kept their identities secret following the war in exchange for access to data gleaned from the project.
2018-04-17

Sayonara Genpatsu protest of 60,000 of anti-nuclear power in Japan.
2011-09-19

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits offshore of Japan's Miyagi prefecture, producing tsunamis as high as 10 meters near the epicenter and reaching land throughout the Pacific ocean.
2011-03-11

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologises over a fundraising scandal.
2011-03-4

A computer glitch temporarily halts all bullet trains in northern and central Japan, affecting thousands of passengers.
2011-01-17