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Officials said they needed more time to analyze whether the spacecraft made a planned-for pinpoint landing.
Officials say five crew members aboard the coast guard plane were killed. All 379 people on the Japan Airlines flight got out safely.
Japanese coast guard officials say the cause of Wednesday’s crash and the status of the seven others on board were not immediately known.
The landmark decision on a 20-year-old law long criticized by international rights and medical groups has been welcomed by advocates as a sign of growing acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights.
The tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant is starting a controversial project that’s expected to last for decades.
The Japanese government says treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be released into the ocean as early as Thursday.
North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month.
An investigation by Chief Itaru Nakamura’s own National Police Agency showed it did not adequately safeguard Shinzo Abe from a fatal shooting at a campaign speech last month.
Residents in Fukushima and Miyagi were cleaning their homes after a sleepless night following a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the northern Japanese coasts, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people.
The twin decisions have turned the Olympics into a made-for-TV event in a move supported by the International Olympic Committee.
The Olympics risk becoming an incubator for “a Tokyo variant,” as 15,000 foreign athletes and tens of thousands officials, sponsors and journalists from about 200 countries descend on — and potentially mix with — a largely unvaccinated Japanese population.
The magnitude-9.0 quake that struck March 11, 2011 — one of the biggest on record — triggered a wall of water that swept far inland. Areas near the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are still off limits.
As survivors' numbers dwindle — their average age is about 83 — many nations have bolstered or maintained their nuclear arsenals, and Japan's own government refuses to sign a nuclear weapons ban treaty.
The ship seemed to serve as an incubator for the new virus from China instead of an isolation facility meant to prevent the worsening of an outbreak.
His reign runs through midnight, when his son Crown Prince Naruhito, who observed Akihito’s abdication ceremony, becomes the new emperor.