Offstream
news

A person is killed when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines. Tsunami warnings are issued for the Philippines and Japan, but are later lifted.
2023-12-2

Two of four Japanese gang leaders based in the Philippines are deported on suspicion of ordering around 2,300 robberies and phone fraud activities with a total value of 3.5 billion (26.4 million in Japan.
2023-02-7

Bob Weighton, aged 111, of Alton, Hampshire, England, is named the oldest living man in the world after the death of Chitetsu Watanabe of Japan at the age of 112.
2020-02-26

A 17-pound (8 kg) CH-53E transport helicopter window lands on school grounds in Okinawa, Japan, marking the second time in less than a week that an American aircraft part has fallen on a school there. Today, a child sustains "minor injuries". The United States Marine Corps apologizes.
2017-12-13

Typhoon Lan makes landfall in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, causing at least two deaths and 10 injuries.
2017-10-23

South Korea has determined North Korea is capable of mounting a nuclear warhead on its medium-range Rodong-1 ballistic missile, which could reach all of South Korea and most of Japan, according to a senior government official.
2016-04-5

Japan is to deport 14 pro-China activists who landed on the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2012-08-16

The Japanese national broadcasting company NHK captures images of the Chinese Navy navigating the high seas between the islands of Japan's Okinawa prefecture.
2011-06-23

Sony announces that five more Japanese manufacturing plants will stop working or reduce hours as a result of supply problems caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-03-22

The United States authorises the first evacuation of Americans from Japan.
2011-03-17