January 22 – Four people were killed, and three others were found unconscious in an apartment fire in Kobe.[6]
January 25 – A Hong Kong-registered ship carrying 22 people capsized off the waters of Japan. 13 crew members were rescued, with two reported dead and nine reported missing.[7]
January 29 – A 17-year-old student was filmed licking soy sauce bottles in the food chain Sushiro.[8] Outrage spread across Japan, starting a series of pranks across the country referred to as "sushi terrorism".[9]
Mitsubishi SpaceJet complete withdraw announcement on February 7
February 3 – An Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister of Fumio Kishida, Masayoshi Arai[ja] said that, "I would not want to live next to, or look at the homosexual, If same-sex marriage were legalized, some people would abandon their country".[10][11] He was fired the following day.
March 15 – YouTuber and former MP Yoshikazu Higashitani is expelled by the House of Councillors for never attending parliament.[13] An arrest warrant was requested for him the following day.[14]
April 15 – The assassination attempt is made on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida when what was described as a "smoke bomb" was thrown towards his direction and detonated, while he was delivering speech in Wakayama. But he was unhurt from that bomb.[19]
May
A damage at 2023 Ishikawa earthquakeA members attend to general meeting on 2023 G7 Summit in Japan
June 18 – According to Japan National Police Agency official confirmed report, a regular route bus and a truck carrying livestock were collision in Yakumo, Hokkaido, a five persons were human fatalities with twelve persons were hurt,[23][24]
September 8–9 – According to Japan Fire and Disasters Management Agency official confirmed report, heavy rain from Tropical Storm Yunyeung leads to a flash flood and a levee collapse in Iwaki, Kitaibaraki and Boso Peninsula. There is one fatality and 21 persons injured.[citation needed]
October 31 – According to JNPA official announced, two men were hurt by handgun at Toda General Hospital, following two employee were hostage trap in post office in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, all hostage was without hurt with later freed, and 86 years age were arrested on suspicion for violence on handgun use.[33]
The Tokyo High Court rules that the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO will be solely responsible for compensating evacuees, while reducing the amount by half of what a lower court had initially ordered, and absolved the government of any liability.[38]
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