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The Lahaina Bypass in west Maui, Hawaii, United States, reopens to traffic after being closed for a week due to the wildfires.
2023-08-16

Japan and Russia sign an agreement on fishing quotas after a month of negotiations. The two countries agree on Japan's quota of 2,050 tons of salmon and trout within Russia's exclusive economic zone, which is the same level as last year, while Japan agrees to pay fees of between 200–300 million yen to Russia.
2022-04-22

United States president Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka visits Japan.
2017-11-3

Severe flooding on the Japanese island of Kyushu has caused seven deaths with twenty people unaccounted for.
2017-07-7

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe makes a landmark visit to Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, offering "sincere and everlasting condolences" to the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese empire on December 7, 1941.
2016-12-27

"Solar Impulse 2" becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to travel around the world without fuel after it returns to Abu Dhabi.
2016-07-26

Egypt, Senegal, Uruguay, Japan, and Ukraine are elected to two-year, non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for 2016-17, replacing Chad, Chile, Jordan, Lithuania, and Nigeria. [https:--www.nytimes.com-2015-10-16-world-ukraine-and-japan-among-latest-members-of-un-security-council.html?ref=world (New York Times) ]
2015-10-15

The circumnavigation attempt of Earth by the solar-powered Solar Impulse plane, currently in Hawaii, has been suspended for the rest of 2015 in order to perform necessary repairs.
2015-07-15

Police in Japan arrest Naoko Kikuchi, a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the two fugitives still at large wanted over the deadly sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in March 1995.
2012-06-3

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits Nagano Prefecture in Japan, resulting in at least seven injuries.
2011-06-30