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The International Atomic Energy Agency approves the Japanese government's proposal to discharge treated radioactive waste water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, with expectations of minimal radiological impact.
2023-07-4

The Japanese government asks the public to conserve energy and to prepare for power outages as the country faces a heat wave.
2022-06-27

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya enters the Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing to board a flight to Belarus at Haneda Airport and asking for Japanese police protection. Her husband has left Belarus and entered Ukraine. The Japanese government says that it will take measures to protect Tsimanouskaya's stay as multiple European countries offer her asylum.
2021-08-2

The Japanese government, in its annual economic policy guidelines, recommends that companies employ a four-day workweek, saying it will improve work-life balance, encourage skill development, and will cause workers to spend more to boost the economy.
2021-06-22

The Japanese government authorizes a release of contaminated water from the plant into the Pacific Ocean. Officials say that the release represents a "significantly small" risk to human health.
2019-11-18

Sakie Yokota, the mother of a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea 42 years ago at the age of 13, appeals directly to Kim Jong-un to release her and all Japanese abductees. She also decries the lack of Japanese government action on the issue.
2019-11-15

South Korean media reports that between May and September, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe sent personal letters to North Korea's Kim Jong-un to hold bilateral meetings to ease tensions between the two countries. A Japanese government spokesman denies the report.
2019-11-13

According to the Japanese Government, three of them came down in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.
2017-03-6

The Japanese government announces that it will start testing mileage figures of Mitsubishi Motors vehicles following recent revelations that testing data had been manipulated over a 25-year period.
2016-04-28

Mitsubishi admits that its fuel efficiency tests broke Japanese rules for about 625,000 "ultrasmall" vehicles sold in Japan.
2016-04-20