2025 in Japan

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  1. Tita, Bob; Lucey, Catherine (January 3, 2025). "Biden Blocks Sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved January 11, 2025.
  2. "8 students injured in hammer attack at univ. campus in Tokyo suburbs". Kyodo News. January 10, 2025. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  3. "3 injured in wake of M6.6 southwest Japan quake". Mainichi Shimbun. January 14, 2025. Retrieved January 14, 2025.
  4. "1 person is killed and 2 injured in stabbing outside Nagano station in central Japan". AP News. January 23, 2025. Retrieved January 23, 2025.
  5. "Executives at Japan's Fuji TV and parent firm resign over a sex scandal linked to a former star". AP News. January 27, 2025. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  6. "The body of a truck driver whose vehicle fell into a sinkhole in Japan is recovered after 3 months". AP News. May 2, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  7. "Japan to halt funding for a UN women's rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession". AP News. January 30, 2025. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
  8. "Ex-Japan lawmaker gets suspended term for raping middle school girl". Kyodo News . February 3, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  9. "Afghanistan's Taliban makes debut diplomatic trip to Japan". Al Jazeera. February 17, 2025. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  10. "Man jailed for attempted murder of former Japan PM". BBC. February 19, 2025. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  11. "Man jailed for attempted murder of former Japan PM". France 24. February 21, 2025. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  12. 1 2 "岩手県大船渡市の林野火災による被害及び 消防機関等の対応状況(第13報)" (PDF). Fire and Disaster Management Agency (in Japanese). March 4, 2025. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  13. Young, Jin Yu; Ueno, Hisako (March 2, 2025). "Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 4, 2025.
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  15. "Japan's Ishiba criticized over gifts to lawmakers months after a scandal-fueled election loss". AP News. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
  16. "Japan PM Ishiba's cabinet approval hits record low, Asahi reports". Reuters . March 17, 2025.
  17. "Japanese judge elected chief of International Court of Justice". Kyodo News . March 4, 2025. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  18. "Suspended bullet trains in Japan restart after decoupling incident". Kyodo News. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  19. "Japan's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage in law is unconstitutional, a court finds". AP News. March 7, 2025.
  20. "Japanese media say police have arrested several men for alleged sexual assault of their daughters". AP News. March 12, 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
  21. "Controversial Japan politician Tachibana slashed in central Tokyo". Kyodo News. March 14, 2025.
  22. "Police arrest man in fatal knife attack on a YouTuber during livestreaming on Tokyo street". AP News. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
  23. "A Japanese man handed 7-year sentence in Belarus on charges of working for Japanese intelligence". AP News. March 20, 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
  24. "1st dismantling of nuclear reactor begins in central Japan". Kyodo News. March 20, 2025. Retrieved March 17, 2025.
  25. "Wildfires spread in western Japan, SDF joins firefighting efforts". Kyodo News. March 24, 2025. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
  26. "A court orders the dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan". CNN. March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  27. "Japan high court rules same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional". Kyodo News. March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  28. "Kyoto Univ. professor becomes 1st Japanese to win Abel Prize in math". Kyodo News. March 26, 2025. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
  29. "Ex-ruling party lawmaker given 2.5-year sentence for fraud". Kyodo News. March 27, 2025. Retrieved March 28, 2025.
  30. "Japan's Sukiya food chain shuts almost all outlets after rat and cockroach contamination". AP News. March 31, 2025. Retrieved March 31, 2025.
  31. "47, mostly foreigners, injured in bus collision on Tokyo expressway". Kyodo News. April 5, 2025. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  32. "3 now confirmed dead after helicopter crash in southwestern Japan". Kyodo News. April 7, 2025. Retrieved April 7, 2025.
  33. "Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima". France 24. April 7, 2025. Retrieved April 7, 2025.
  34. "Honda executive resigns over 'inappropriate conduct'". France 24. April 7, 2025. Retrieved April 7, 2025.
  35. "Actress Ryoko Hirosue arrested for assault at Japan hospital". Kyodo News. April 8, 2025. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  36. "Actor Hirosue Ryoko arrested on suspicion of causing injury". NHK World-Japan. April 8, 2025. Archived from the original on April 8, 2025. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  37. "Expo 2025 in Japan: five things to know". France 24. April 13, 2025. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
  38. 1 2 "岸本周平・和歌山県知事が死去 68歳 14日に倒れ意識不明に". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  39. "In first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google". The Japan Times. April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  40. "長野県北部で震度5弱 16歳男性を救急搬送 避難中に転倒し右足をけが (22時30分時点)". Fuji News Network (in Japanese). April 18, 2025. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
  41. "3 die, 10 injured after head-on crash on eastern Japan expressway". Kyodo News . April 27, 2025. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  42. "Car rams into 7 elementary school pupils, man arrested". Kyodo News. May 1, 2025. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  43. "Japan's imperial palace fires an employee for stealing cash from the household". AP News. May 1, 2025. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  44. "2 injured in knife attack at Tokyo subway station, suspect arrested". Kyodo News. May 7, 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
  45. "2 men arrested over disturbance at Tokyo school, 5 teachers injured". Kyodo News. May 8, 2025. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
  46. "Japan's air force confirms the deaths of 2 crew in a training plane crash". AP News. May 22, 2025. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
  47. "Defense force trainer plane with 2 crew crashes in central Japan lake". Kyodo News. May 14, 2025. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  48. "Japan's agriculture minister resigns after a rice gaffe causes political fallout". AP News. May 21, 2025. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
  49. "A man is detained over a pepper spray attack at a shopping mall near Tokyo". AP News. May 23, 2025. Retrieved May 23, 2025.
  50. "10 suffer minor injuries after explosions at Tokyo construction site". Kyodo News. May 27, 2025. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  51. "Japanese firm declares lunar mission a failure after crash landing". Al Jazeera. June 6, 2025. Retrieved June 6, 2025.
  52. "Japan's shogi board game ass'n has 1st female chief". Kyodo News. June 8, 2025. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  53. "Explosion at a US air base in southern Japan injures 4 Japanese soldiers". AP News. June 9, 2025. Retrieved June 9, 2025.
  54. "In brutal fashion, Japan show Indonesia the level needed to reach FIFA World Cup". ESPN . June 10, 2025.
  55. "Japan islanders sleepless after 900 earthquakes in two weeks". BBC . July 3, 2025.
  56. "Mt. Shinmoe in southwestern Japan erupts, alert level maintained". Kyodo News . June 22, 2025.
  57. "Japanese court convicts a US Marine in sexual assault, sentencing him to 7 years in prison". AP News . June 26, 2025.
  58. "Veteran politician Seiko Hashimoto elected first female president of the Japanese Olympic Committee". AP News . June 27, 2025.
  59. "Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine". BBC . June 27, 2025.
  60. "China lifts a nearly 2-year ban on seafood from Japan over Fukushima wastewater". AP News. June 30, 2025. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  61. "Novelist Otani becomes Japan's 1st to win British crime writing award". Kyodo News. July 4, 2025. Retrieved July 4, 2025.
  62. "Man stabs two women to death, at 'girls bar' in Hamamatsu". NHK. July 6, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  63. "Over 800 suspected of cheating on TOEIC English exam in Japan". Kyodo News. July 7, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  64. "Hokkaido's 1st "bear warning" issued in town after fatal attack". Kyodo News. July 12, 2025. Retrieved July 13, 2025.
  65. Komiya, Kantaro (July 12, 2025). "Taiwanese rocket fails to achieve Japan's first foreign launch". Reuters. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  66. "Typhoon Nari makes landfall on Japan's Hokkaido, 1st time since 2016". Kyodo News. July 15, 2025. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  67. "2 dead as building under demolition in southwestern Japan collapses". Kyodo News. July 15, 2025. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  68. "(LEAD) S. Korea lose to Japan to fall short of E. Asian football title at home". Yonhap. July 16, 2025.
  69. "Japan's PM vows to stay on despite bruising election loss". BBC . July 21, 2025.
  70. "Trump announces trade deal with Japan that lowers threatened tariff to 15%". AP News. July 23, 2025. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
  71. "Japanese suspect in knife attack wrote 'someone is watching me' in notebooks". NHK. July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  72. "津波警報受け避難中の車が崖下に転落 運転していた58歳女性が死亡 三重・熊野市" [A 58-year-old woman driving a car falls off a cliff during evacuation after receiving a tsunami warning in Kumano City, Mie Prefecture, and dies]. Abema Times (in Japanese). Livedoor. July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  73. "M8.8 quake off Russia prompts Japan tsunami warning, 50 cm detected". Kyodo News. July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  74. "Japan court awards ex-mayor damages over Fukushima nuclear disaster". Kyodo News. July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  75. "Japan logs record high temperature of 41.2 C in western prefecture". Kyodo News. July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  76. "4 workers die after falling in manhole during pipe checks near Tokyo". Kyodo News. August 2, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  77. "Japan sets new record high temperature of 41.8C". France 24. August 5, 2025. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  78. "Japan's 1st osmotic power plant begins operating in Fukuoka". Kyodo News. August 17, 2025. Retrieved August 17, 2025.
  79. "SDF F-2A fighter jet crashes in Pacific off east Japan, pilot rescued". Kyodo News. August 7, 2025. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  80. "Japan chain stops rice ball sales after staff fake expiry dates". BBC. August 19, 2025. Retrieved August 19, 2025.
  81. "Mudslides, swollen rivers triggered by heavy rain in Kyushu leave three dead". NHK. August 12, 2025. Retrieved August 12, 2025.
  82. "One dead after vessels collide off Oita, southwestern Japan". NHK. August 12, 2025. Retrieved August 13, 2025.
  83. "Hokkaido police identify dead climber attacked by bear". NHK. August 15, 2025. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  84. "Smoke disrupts Tokaido Shinkansen services in central Japan". NHK. August 16, 2025. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  85. "Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force: Lightning strike caused death of two members". NHK. August 20, 2025. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
  86. "Fire on US warship off Japan injures 2 sailors before being extinguished". AP News. August 21, 2025. Retrieved August 21, 2025.
  87. "Man arrested after allegedly releasing pepper spray, injuring 18 in Tokyo". Kyodo News. August 23, 2025. Retrieved August 25, 2025.
  88. "Mt. Shinmoedake erupts in southwestern Japan, smoke reaches 5,500 meters". NHK . August 28, 2025.
  89. "帝拳ジムを支えたマネジャー長野ハルさんが死去 老衰のため99歳で". スポーツ報知. January 5, 2025. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
  90. "【訃報】ひめゆり同窓会前会長 玉城節子さん死去 全学徒の会活動にも尽力". OKITIVE (in Japanese). January 7, 2025. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
  91. "建築家の原広司さん死去、88歳…JR京都駅ビルや梅田スカイビルを手がける". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). January 4, 2025. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
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  94. "水泳飛び込みで五輪3度出場、馬淵かの子さん死去 寺内健さん、玉井陸斗ら指導". 神戸新聞NEXT (in Japanese). January 10, 2025. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  95. "岩見沢在住・画家マヤさん死去 芸術通じ美流渡振興 催し企画や企業看板制作". 北海道新聞. January 10, 2025. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  96. 上田正治さん死去 映画撮影監督 (in Japanese)
  97. スケートの鈴木恵一さん死去 500m元世界記録保持者. nordot.app (in Japanese). January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  98. "野中郁次郎氏が死去 知識経営の権威、「失敗の本質」". 日本経済新聞 (in Japanese). January 26, 2025. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  99. 指揮者 秋山和慶さん 死去 84歳 国内外のオーケストラで活躍 (in Japanese)
  100. 「スケバン刑事」「ガラスの仮面」担当…白泉社創業メンバーの小長井信昌氏死去、94歳. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). February 17, 2025. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  101. Mateo, Alex (February 19, 2025). "Anime Figure Manufacturer Kaiyodo's Founder Osamu Miyawaki Dies at 96". Anime News Network . Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  102. "プロレスラーで文京区議会議員の西村修さんが53歳で死去 2024年からステージ4の食道がんで闘病". Tokyo Sports. February 28, 2025. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
  103. "【訃報】フリーアナウンサー・みのもんたさん(80)死去 きょう未明家族に見守られ…今年1月に飲食店で食事をのどに詰まらせ救急搬送". Livedoor News (in Japanese). TBS News Dig. March 1, 2025. Archived from the original on March 1, 2025.
  104. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 27, 2025). "Votoms, God Mars Voice Actress Yōko Kawanami Dies". Anime News Network . Retrieved April 13, 2025.
  105. "Gov. Kishimoto of west Japan's Wakayama Pref. dies at 68". Mainichi Shimbun . April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  106. "Japan's oldest person dies at 115". Kyodo News . April 28, 2025. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
  107. "Japan's oldest person dies at 114". Mainichi Shimbun . May 21, 2025. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
  108. "Shigeo Nagashima, known in Japan as 'Mr. Pro Baseball,' dies at 89". AP News . June 3, 2025. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  109. "Japan's 400,000-follower 'Insta-gran' dies aged 97". GMA News . June 12, 2025. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  110. "London Olympics wrestling gold medalist Obara dies at 44". Kyodo News . July 19, 2025. Retrieved July 19, 2025.
  111. "Japan's oldest person, 114-year-old woman in Oita Prefecture, dies". Kyodo News . July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  112. "Second boxer dies from brain injury after Tokyo event". BBC . August 10, 2025. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  113. "アニメ『聖闘士星矢』主題歌担当のNoB(山田信夫)さん、死去 腎臓がんのため 61歳". ORICON NEWS (in Japanese). August 13, 2025. Retrieved August 13, 2025.
  114. "Former Japanese soccer great Kamamoto dies at 81". NHK . August 10, 2025. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  115. "Genshitsu Sen, Japanese tea master and former Kamikaze pilot trainee, dies at 102". AP News . August 14, 2025. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  116. "元衆院議員 河本三郎さん死去 74歳 旧河本派会長・敏夫さんの三男". kobe-np News (in Japanese). August 21, 2025. Retrieved August 21, 2025.
  117. "長崎・島原の元市長、鐘ケ江管一さん死去 雲仙・普賢岳噴火時に指揮:朝日新聞". 朝日新聞 (in Japanese). August 22, 2025. Retrieved August 22, 2025.

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