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2005
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2004
- October 23, Strong earthquakes in Central Niigata Prefecture kill more than 40 persons with 3000 persons injured. See 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake
- August 9, An obsolete steam pipe at Mihama Nuclear Plant blows up, killing four workers.
- July 22, Agency of Police discloses that 34,427 persons committed suicides in 2003.
- July 21, Premier Junichiro Koizumi meets Presient Roh Moo-hyun at Jeju Island in South Korea.
- July 11, Election for Upper House. LDP suffers a small setback.
- July 8, Naha District Court in Okinawa sentences US Marine Major Michael Brown to a suspended one-year prison term on charge of attempted rape against a Filipina.
- July 1, Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in Kii Mountain Range enlisted as a world heritage site.
- May 22, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visits Pyongyang to bring back 5 Japanese youths who were born during their parents' hostages in North Korea.
- May 10, Crown Prince Naruhito denounces palace officials at a press conference, suggesting that Crown Princess Masako is physically and mentally sick.
- May 10, Winny developer Isamu Kaneko, assistant instructer at Tokyo University, arrested on charge of helping violation of the copyright law.
- April 7, Three Japanese civilians taken hostage in Iraq. (Released later.)
- 24 March, Chinese activists, landing on the disputed Senkaku Islands ( Tiao Yu Tai in Chinese), arrested and deported at once.
- 19 January, The advance troops enter Iraq, marking the first dispatch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces into a combat area.
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