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Japan Airlines Flight 516 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, Japan, to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The Coast Guard plane was scheduled to deliver relief supplies a day after the 2024 Noto earthquake .
The storm, located 121 nautical miles southeast of Yokosuka, Greater Tokyo, has intensified to the equivalent strength of a Category 4 hurricane, bringing winds of up to 212 kilometers per hour ...
January 19 – The Tokyo Institute of Technology and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University announced a merger to form the Tokyo Institute Science University, to be completed in April 2024. [ 4 ] January 20 – The Bank of Japan reported that inflation in Japan increased by 4.0% in December, the highest recorded increase since 1981 .
The Japanese asset price bubble (バブル景気, baburu keiki, lit. ' bubble economy ') was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1991 in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated. [1] In early 1992, this price bubble burst and the country's economy stagnated.
The Sugamo child-abandonment case (巣鴨子供置き去り事件, Sugamo kodomo okizari jiken) was a situation uncovered in 1988 in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. It involved a woman who abandoned her five young children for months, resulting in the death of two.
The 1990s in Japan was the beginning of economic turmoil and recession for that particular nation, resulting in their Lost Decade. [1] While the Lost Decade would finally end in 2000 for Japan, [ 1 ] this would become the era where young Japanese salarymen were forced to find different lines of work.
Such swings can hurt the profits of exporters, and Toyota's stock tumbled 8.5% in Tokyo Thursday even though it reported a rise in profit. ___ AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott ...
January 1: Telephone numbers in Osaka are extended to ten digits, and mobile phone numbers throughout Japan are extended to eleven. March 3: The Bank of Japan announces its zero interest rate policy. April 11: 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election - Shintaro Ishihara is elected governor of Tokyo.