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Japanese citizens vote for the 465 seats in the House of Representatives.
2024-10-27

Japan's Nikkei 225 stock market index rises more than 10%, a day after declining by more than 12%.
2024-08-6

Japan detects a new variant from 91 cases in the Kanto region and two cases at airports. In addition, an infection cluster is detected at a Tokyo immigration facility.
2021-02-19

Japan detects possible community spread of the B.1.1.7 variant in three people from Shizuoka with no known travel history.
2021-01-18

The government expands the state of emergency to seven prefectures, including Aichi, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Kyoto, as the country surpasses 300,000 cases of COVID-19.
2021-01-13

The names of 3,607 employees of Unit 731, a Japanese military medical experimentation unit associated with war crimes during World War II, are released. Prosecutors in the United States had kept their identities secret following the war in exchange for access to data gleaned from the project.
2018-04-17

More than 200 people are dead in the southern Philippines as a result of floods and mudslides caused by Severe Tropical Storm Vinta.
2017-12-23

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

The death toll from landslides in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture rises to 39 with 26 missing.
2014-08-22

Radioactive cesium above Japanese legal limits is found in tea from the Shizuoka Prefecture, located 300 kilometres from the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
2011-06-10