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The Bank of Japan decides at its policy meeting to raise its short-term interest rate from 0.25% to 0.5%, which is its highest level since 2008. Mongolian-born sumō wrestler Hōshōryū wins his ...

The Japanese government formally obtains control of the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands. Japan asserts the islands were not owned by anyone prior to their occupation while China maintains it has ...

The Northern Territories issue has stood in the way of Japan and Russia concluding a peace treaty for decades. Toward the end of the war, the then-Soviet Union attacked the islands. At that time ...