- Toshiba confirms breakup plan
- Japan records zero COVID-19 deaths for the first time in 15 months
- Fumio Kishida wins race to become Japan’s next prime minister
- Yuto Horigome of Japan wins the first-ever gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics
- Japan and the Philippines to hold first ever joint air drills
- COVID-19 vaccination financial support in Japan to be extended
- North Korea to boycott the Tokyo Olympics
- Vaccines to hopefully save the Tokyo Summer Olympics this 2021
- Japan’s Prime Minister starts the aim of zero emissions, a carbon-neutral nation by 2050
- Flaming Torch-inspired skyscraper set to be the tallest building in Japan