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A man attacks passengers on a train in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan, with acid and a knife, before setting the train on fire, injuring 17 people. A man is arrested at the scene.
2021-10-31

Japan reports a record for the second consecutive day of 25,156 new cases of COVID-19.
2021-08-19

Japan reports a record 45 new deaths in the past 24 hours as the number of severe cases also hitting a record 505 patients.
2020-12-4

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

Amid growing concern about North Korea's ballistic missile capability, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. are to hold their first ever joint anti-missile exercise next month, according to South Korea's Ministry of National Defense. The three countries will practice "detecting and tracing a hypothetical North Korean missile," said a ministry official.
2016-05-17

Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga says he "cannot comply with the recommendation" from Tokyo's Land Minister Keiichi Ishii, and will not retract his revocation of a U.S. military base relocation permit.
2015-11-6

Typhoon Ma-on, the second typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season, approaches the main Japanese island of Honshu leading to cancellation of air services.
2011-07-19

The population of Japan records its slowest increase since Japan first held a census.
2011-02-25

A Salvador Dalí exhibition in Atlanta, United States, is to feature items from Canada, Japan and Scotland.
2010-08-5

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan warns that the nation's economy is on "brink of collapse".
2010-06-11