News: Japan

We have started to collect the most important news related to Japan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Japan: news

Japan's Abe backs new minister

Sunday, July 8th 2007, 9:17

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe backs his new agriculture minister over claims of improper expenses.
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Japan 'must boost missile shield'

Friday, July 6th 2007, 7:29
related countries: North Korea
related places: Tokyo

Tokyo needs to bolster its missile defence to counter the threat from North Korea, Japan's defence ministry says.
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Abe admits tough election ahead

Thursday, July 5th 2007, 14:12

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe admits his coalition faces a difficult battle to win the upper house elections.
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Japan minister quits over gaffe

Tuesday, July 3rd 2007, 7:46
related countries: United States

Japan's defence minister quits following a row over remarks he made about the US atomic attacks during World War II.
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Abe rebukes bomb gaffe minister

Monday, July 2nd 2007, 9:03

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe rebukes a minister over WWII atom bomb comments, as his poll ratings drop further.
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Japanese business confidence firm

Monday, July 2nd 2007, 6:31

Business confidence in Japan has remained steady in recent months, according to the latest tankan survey.
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Atom bomb row minister apologises

Sunday, July 1st 2007, 8:05
related countries: United States

Japan's defence minister apologises for saying the US atom bomb attacks in World War II were inevitable.
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Japan minister in atom bomb row

Saturday, June 30th 2007, 12:03
related countries: United States

The US atom bombs dropped on Japan were inevitable to end World War II, Japan's defence minister says.
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Fujimori 'to run' in Japan poll

Thursday, June 28th 2007, 10:59
related countries: Chile, Peru
related places: Alberto Fujimori

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, under house arrest in Chile, says he will run for office in Japan.
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Japanese ex-leader Miyazawa dies

Thursday, June 28th 2007, 8:51
related places: Miyazawa

Former Japanese Prime Minister and veteran lawmaker Kiichi Miyazawa dies at the age of 87.
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Japan rebuts sex slave pressure

Wednesday, June 27th 2007, 7:45
related countries: United States

Japan dismisses pressure from US lawmakers to issue a fresh apology over its use of 'comfort women'.
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Okinawa anger at textbook plans

Friday, June 22nd 2007, 8:41
related places: Okinawa

The Japanese island of Okinawa protests at plans to revise textbook accounts of army WWII activities.
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Japan renames island of Iwo Jima

Thursday, June 21st 2007, 7:57

The Japanese island of Iwo Jima, scene of a fierce World War II battle, regains its original name.
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Fujimori mulls Japan party offer

Wednesday, June 20th 2007, 4:08
related countries: Chile, Peru
related places: Alberto Fujimori

Peruvian ex-leader Alberto Fujimori, under house arrest in Chile, considers an offer to run for office in Japan.
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Japan MPs play down 1937 killings

Tuesday, June 19th 2007, 16:24
related countries: China
related places: Nanjing

A group of Japanese MPs claims China exaggerated the number of people killed in the Nanjing attack.
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Tokyo spa blast injures several

Tuesday, June 19th 2007, 7:16
related places: Tokyo

A number of people have been injured after an explosion at a women's bath house in central Tokyo, reports say.
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Japan's elderly are urged to work

Friday, June 8th 2007, 7:20

Japan's government says it has to work harder to encourage elderly people to remain in the workforce.
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Taiwan ex-leader in shrine visit

Thursday, June 7th 2007, 3:18
related countries: China, Taiwan
related places: Yasukuni

A Taiwanese former leader visits Japan's Yasukuni war shrine, which could reignite tensions between with China.
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Japanese whale request rejected

Wednesday, June 6th 2007, 22:00

Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at a meeting in The Hague.
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Japan threat to exit whaling body

Friday, June 1st 2007, 5:31

Japan fails to ease an international ban on commercial whaling, leading it to warn it may leave the IWC.
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Whale meeting condemns Japan

Thursday, May 31st 2007, 6:58

The International Whaling Commission passes a resolution condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunt.
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Japanese minister's funeral held

Wednesday, May 30th 2007, 11:02

Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Japan's scandal-hit agriculture minister, following his suicide.
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Climber collects Everest rubbish

Tuesday, May 29th 2007, 5:08

A Japanese mountaineer leads an expedition to the Mount Everest to retrieve tons of rubbish.
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Anti-whaling lobby rebuffs Japan

Tuesday, May 29th 2007, 2:17

Anti-whaling nations quash Japanese overtures as an annual whaling conference opens in Alaska.
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Japanese minister kills himself

Monday, May 28th 2007, 15:17
related places: Tokyo

Japan's agriculture minister is found hanged, hours before he was to face questions over a political scandal.
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Cruelty and the kitchen

Sunday, May 27th 2007, 11:18

Environment correspondent Richard Black asks moral questions posed by a plate of Japanese whale meat.
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North Korea test-fires missiles

Friday, May 25th 2007, 15:26
related countries: North Korea

North Korea test-fires several missiles towards the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military exercise.
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Japan eyes 50% gas cut

Thursday, May 24th 2007, 14:13

The world should halve emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, Japan's prime minister says.
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Japan WWII sailors stay in wreck

Tuesday, May 22nd 2007, 20:07
related countries: Australia
related places: Sydney

The bodies of two WWII submariners from Japan are to be left in their wreck off Sydney, Australia.
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Japanese debut for Potter movie

Tuesday, May 22nd 2007, 8:35

The fifth Harry Potter film, The Order of the Phoenix, will open in Tokyo next month, Warner Bros confirms.
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Trial over Japan embassy siege

Saturday, May 19th 2007, 7:07
related countries: Peru

Peru's ex-intelligence chief goes on trial over alleged extra-judicial killings during the 1997 Japanese embassy siege.
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Woman flees 24-hour Japan siege

Friday, May 18th 2007, 13:03

A hostage escapes a house in Japan after her ex-husband allegedly kills a policeman and wounds three others.
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Japan schools to teach patriotism

Friday, May 18th 2007, 11:45

Japan's lower house of parliament approves a new law requiring schools to teach children to be patriotic.
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Bank of Japan keeps rates on hold

Thursday, May 17th 2007, 5:37

Japan's key interest rate is kept on hold at 0.5% for a third consecutive month amid a slip in consumer prices.
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Japan boy 'severs mother's head'

Tuesday, May 15th 2007, 10:52

A Japanese teenager walks into a police station carrying a human head and claiming to have killed his mother.
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Japan approves constitution steps

Monday, May 14th 2007, 8:45

Japan's parliament passes legislation that paves the way for a referendum on revising the pacifist constitution.
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'New proof' of Japan sex slaves

Friday, May 11th 2007, 13:00

Documents are reported to have surfaced in Japan contradicting the PM's denial of forced sex slavery in WWII.
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New images in Japan murder hunt

Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 8:33
related countries: United Kingdom

Japanese police release fresh video footage of a man sought over the murder of a British teacher.
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Japan PM sent war shrine offering

Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 5:31
related places: Yasukuni

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has sent an offering to the Yasukuni war shrine, but declined to visit himself.
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Singapore PM warns US on China

Saturday, May 5th 2007, 0:17
related countries: China, Singapore, United States
related places: Washington

Singapore's prime minister urges the US to maintain ties with both China and Japan, after talks in Washington.
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Japan child numbers at record low

Friday, May 4th 2007, 12:40

The number of children under the age of 15 in Japan has fallen to 17.38 million, a record low, figures show.
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Japan PM calls for defence review

Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 5:20

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe uses the 60th anniversary of the nation's pacifist constitution to call for 'bold' changes.
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S Korea to seize 'traitors' land

Wednesday, May 2nd 2007, 8:38
related countries: South Korea

South Korea announces a plan to seize assets gained by alleged collaborators during Japan's colonial rule.
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US to give North Korea more time

Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 22:39
related countries: North Korea, United States

The US says it will give N Korea more time to act on its nuclear disarmament pledge following talks with Japan.
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Blackman verdict appeal launched

Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 6:10

Prosecutors begin an appeal against a decision to clear a Japanese businessman of Lucie Blackman's death.
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Japan-US talks pressure N Korea

Friday, April 27th 2007, 18:03
related countries: North Korea, United States

The leaders of Japan and the US strengthen calls for North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.
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Abe explains sex slave comments

Friday, April 27th 2007, 6:26
related countries: United States

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe says comments over WWII sex slaves were misunderstood, as his US trip continues.
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Japan raid on pro-N Korea group

Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 8:53
related countries: North Korea
related places: Pyongyang

Japanese police raid a pro-North Korean group over the alleged kidnapping of two children in the 1970s.
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China tops US over Japan trade

Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 5:40
related countries: China, United States

China has overtaken the US as Japan's main trade partner for the first time since World War II, official data shows.
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Verdict 'robbed Lucie of justice'

Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 16:25

Lucie Blackman's father says she has been "robbed of justice" after a man is cleared of killing her in Japan.
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Japan clears Blackman accused

Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 11:09

A Japanese man is acquitted of raping and killing Briton Lucie Blackman but is jailed for life for other sex offences.
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Toyota 'world's largest carmaker'

Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 10:52
related countries: United States
related places: Toyota

Japan's Toyota overtakes US rival General Motors to become the world's biggest carmaker, the company says.
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Japan clears Blackman accused

Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 7:06
related countries: United Kingdom

A Japanese man is acquitted of raping and killing Briton Lucie Blackman but is jailed for life for other sex offences.
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