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Tuesday, 24th August 2010
The Tokyo Jazz Festival is set to prove a popular event with tourists and Japanese locals next month.
Monday, 23rd August 2010
Tokyo's Asakusa district is set to host the Japanese Rio Carnival at the end of the month.
Tuesday, 17th August 2010
August's giant lantern festival is a must-see for those travelling to Japan
Monday, 16th August 2010
Second world war veterans have marked the anniversary of Japan's surrender
Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan avoids controversial war shrine on VJ Day
Tuesday, 10th August 2010
The Japanese prime minister has issued an apology to South Korea over its colonial rule of the nation
Monday, 9th August 2010
Ceremony in Nagasaki marks 65th anniversary of the bombing of the city
Friday, 6th August 2010
A Japanese engineer and a computer programmer from the US claim to have calculated pi to five trillion places
Thursday, 5th August 2010
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon is in Japan ahead of the anniversary of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings
Tuesday, 3rd August 2010
Doubt has been shed on the validity of Tokyo's reputed oldest woman as she has in fact been missing for decades, according to her daughter.
A Japanese Twitter user has made history after writing the website's 20 billionth tweet.
Thursday, 29th July 2010
A Japanese oil tanker is damaged after being hit by a "freak" wave off the coast of Oman.
Friday, 23rd July 2010
The Japanese media and some members of the opposition party have raised questions over a visit to Japan by a former North Korean spy.
Tuesday, 20th July 2010
A former North Korean spy has travelled to Japan to meet the families of people kidnapped by the regime in the 1970s and 1980s.
Thursday, 15th July 2010
William Hague is to meet with the Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada today.
Tuesday, 13th July 2010
The new prime minister of Japan has suffered a blow in the polls which has left his party without a majority in the upper house.
Thursday, 8th July 2010
A Japanese space craft tasked with finding out about asteroid life in the solar system may have been able to collect dust from the surface of one such rock.
Monday, 5th July 2010
Japan's new prime minister Naoto Kan has seen his popularity among voters fall sharply in his first few weeks in office.
Japan has been hit by a earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, but there are no reports of damage or injury.
Thursday, 1st July 2010
A group of anti-nuclear weapons protestors have spoken out over talks between Japan and India.
Friday, 18th June 2010
An earthquake measuring 6.3 has struck off the coast of the main northern island of Japan.
Tuesday, 15th June 2010
The Bank of Japan is to offer low interest loans to commercial banks in a bid to boost the country's economic recovery.
Monday, 14th June 2010
A Japanese space craft has landed back on earth after spending seven years in space.
Japanese officials have been accused of offering money to smaller nations to garner support for its controverisal whaling hunts.
Friday, 11th June 2010
The Japanese minister for postal reform Shizuka Kamei is to resign from his post.
Thursday, 10th June 2010
Japanese prosecutors are asking for a whaling protestor to be given a jail term if he is found guilty of charges including assault.
90 per cent of people in Japan still read a newspaper everyday, a trend which defies the slump seen in print journalism around the world.
Support for the new Japanese cabinet is increasing, new figures show.
Wednesday, 9th June 2010
A number of showings of a movie about dolphin hunting in Japan have been cancelled after protests.
Tuesday, 8th June 2010
The new Japanese cabinet has been revealed following the resignation of the country's prime minister last week.
A Japanese space vessel collecting information on asteroids is heading back to earth.
Friday, 4th June 2010
Japanese finance minister Naoto Kan has been revealed as the nation's latest prime minister.
Thursday, 3rd June 2010
Japanese finance minister Naoto Kan is being widely tipped as the country's next prime minister.
Wednesday, 2nd June 2010
Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, has announced he is to step down from his post.
Tuesday, 1st June 2010
Australia takes Japan to the Hague over its traditional whaling season hunt.
Friday, 28th May 2010
The trial of a protestor who boarded a Japanese whaling ship earlier this year has begun in Tokyo.
Tuesday, 25th May 2010
Yukio Hatoyama faces more criticism over his handling of a decision over the location of a US military base.
Monday, 24th May 2010
Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama makes a decision on a controversial military base on the island of Okinawa.
Friday, 21st May 2010
Japan has launched a space probe set to land on Venus and collect information about the conditions on the planet, which is the same size as earth.
Thursday, 20th May 2010
Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao is due to visit Japan this week as part of a wider Asian tour.
Wednesday, 19th May 2010
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is due to visit Japan this week, as part of a trip to Asia.
Tuesday, 18th May 2010
A foot and mouth outbreak in Japan has led to a state of emergency being declared.
Monday, 17th May 2010
A couple in Japan have been married by a robot at a restaurant in a Tokyo park.
Friday, 14th May 2010
The Japanese prime minister's popularity has fallen to lower than 20 per cent, compared to the 70 per cent seen after he was elected.
Wednesday, 12th May 2010
Ichiro Ozawa to face more questions over funding scandal which has hit the ruling party in Japan.
Monday, 10th May 2010
The central bank of Japan has given funding to help ease global market tension in the wake of the financial crisis in Greece.
Another meeting is to take place between Japan and the US, in the hope of solving an ongoing disagreement over the location of a Marine base.
Thursday, 6th May 2010
Japan has been criticised for its child custody laws, which some in the US claim are denying overseas parents access to their children.
A reactor in Japan has opened after being closed down for more than 14 years, following a fire.
Wednesday, 5th May 2010
Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has admitted that it is unlikely that a US base will be completely moved off Okinawa, despite promising to do this in his election campaign.
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