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A district court in Fukushima, Japan, convicts three former soldiers for sexually assaulting a colleague, Rina Gonoi, during a military exercise in 2021, sentencing them to two years in prison and suspending them from the military for four years.
2023-12-12

A mass grave with more than 1,500 bodies is discovered in Osaka, Japan, that dates from the 1600s to the mid-1800s.
2020-08-26

Japan's third-biggest steelmaker, Kobe Steel, admits to falsification of product data. About four percent of the aluminum and copper products that it shipped from September 2016 to August 2017 were falsely labeled as meeting the specifications requested by 200 customers, including Toyota Motor Corp, Central Japan Railway Company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mazda Motor Corp, and Subaru Corp.
2017-10-9

Suzuki says it used improper fuel economy tests for Japan in a widening of a scandal that hit Mitsubishi Motors.
2016-05-18

Two South Korean airlines, Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, will resume flights to Japan after suspending flights during the recent MERS outbreak.
2015-07-15

Japan intends to increase spending for the Japan Self-Defense Forces and transform it into a modern military.
2013-12-17

Japan begins a renewed effort to halt the leak of radioactive material from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
2013-07-23

Japanese electronics company Sony reduces sales and profit forecasts due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a computer hacking attack and slowing demand in the US and Europe.
2011-07-28

Injections of nitrogen into one of the reactors at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant begins in an effort to stop further hydrogen blasts.
2011-04-7

United States Navy commandos from the destroyer USS "Bulkeley" capture four Somali pirates who boarded the Japanese oil tanker, the MV Guanabara.
2011-03-6