Sources: ABC News
Japanese-born Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party is elected president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, marking the first major appointment under prime minister-designate Andrej Babiš's new coalition government. 2025-11-5
Japan suspends the pilot experiment of its first fully autonomous self-driving car following a minor collision. 2023-10-30
Professor Alan Jamieson of the University of Western Australia's Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre announces that his team has captured footage of a snailfish species, "Pseudoliparis belyaevi", swimming at 8336 m in the Izu–Ogasawara Trench off Japan's southern coast. This is the lowest depth recorded for any fish, and closest to the estimated maximum depth possible for fish to survive. 2023-04-1
Japanese citizens head to the polls to elect one half of the members of the country's House of Councillors. 2019-07-21
Mount Iō in northern Japan erupts for the first time in 250 years, together with nearby Mount Kirishima 2018-04-20
The man who served as Japan's deputy chief trade negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade deal, says that there is no room for the sort of renegotiation of a particular provision suggested by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 2016-03-9
The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. 2015-04-16
Japan's ambassador designate to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, dies after suddenly collapsing outside his home in Tokyo on Thursday. 2012-09-16
Japan's Cabinet approves a plan to establish a new energy watchdog under the Environment Ministry. 2011-08-15
Thousands demonstrate against Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit, against the background of a dispute between Japan and China over islands in the East China Sea, condemning “Chinese imperialism” while waving the flags Tibet, East Turkestan and south Mongolia. 2010-11-13