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The number of people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Japan surpasses 50%.
2021-09-12

AstraZeneca announces that they would resume vaccine trials in Japan.
2020-10-2

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe praises North Korea's statement that it would suspend nuclear and missile tests, but he also states the results must lead to verifiable denuclearization.
2018-04-21

Japan activates a 2,100-member Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, its first marine force since World War II.
2018-04-7

A court in Thailand awards a Japanese man paternity rights over 13 of his children from Thai surrogate mothers.
2018-02-20

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

"The Nikkei" reports that Japan's Sharp Corporation has accepted a 700 billion Japanese yen ($6.2 billion) takeover bid from Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group.
2016-02-25

Typhoon Nangka makes landfall on the Japanese island of Shikoku.
2015-07-16

Typhoon Bolaven moves past the Japanese island of Okinawa en route to the Korean Peninsula.
2012-08-27

A two-year-old dog is reunited with her owner in tsunami-ravished Japan.
2011-04-4