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  Bank of Japan drives rates below zero

  10 Sep 2014: Central bank's surprise first purchase at a yield less than zero underlines its determination to boost ailing economy

• Fukushima nuclear disaster: three years on 120,000 evacuees remain uprooted

  10 Sep 2014:

  Japan's 2011 plant meltdown has torn apart close families, leaving elderly relatives isolated and villages uninhabited

• Japan: Hirohito warned attack on Pearl Harbor would be 'self-destructive'

  10 Sep 2014: Official 12,000-page biography reveals emperor's thinking but fails to settle debate over his role in decisions leading to Hiroshima

• Eyewitness: Yokohama, Japan

  Picture, 10 Sep 2014:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

• Japan to restart nuclear reactors

  10 Sep 2014: Nuclear watchdog gives go-ahead to switch two reactors back on but Shinzo Abe faces uphill battle to win over sceptical public

• Bill Shorten warns against buying ‘home brand’ Japanese submarines

  9 Sep 2014: Labor leader says national security would be compromised and jobs would be pushed offshore

• Fukushima fallout continues: now cleanup workers claim unpaid wages

  9 Sep 2014: Last month Tokyo Electric Power was ordered to pay $500,000 compensation, now workers sue for promised danger money

• Neo-Nazi photos pose headache for Shinzo Abe

  9 Sep 2014: Two newly promoted political allies of Japanese PM shown smiling alongside far-right figure Kazunari Yamada

• Unions warn thousands of jobs at risk if submarines are built in Japan

  8 Sep 2014: Speculation that the replacement for the Collins class submarines will be built overseas has prompted demands for clarification

• Japan's first lady says Shinzō Abe helps with household chores 'when he can'

  4 Sep 2014: Akie Abe calls for greater flexibility for women to be more fairly represented after PM appoints five women to his cabinet

• Japan vows to cut suicide rate by 20% over 10 years

  4 Sep 2014: Despite modest fall in rate in recent years, Japan has struggled to address cultural resistance to discussing mental health issues

• Japan set to wade into diplomatic row by bypassing ban on whaling

  4 Sep 2014:

  Tokyo poised to submit plan for 'scientific' programme of whale slaughter in Antarctic to get round ban on commercial whaling

• Japan's Shinzo Abe appoints pro-China MPs in bid to mend fences with Beijing

  3 Sep 2014:

  Rare signal gets optimistic response from China while prime minister also puts five women in his 18-strong cabinet

• Japanese models catch Dengue fever after visiting source of outbreak

  2 Sep 2014: Health ministry confirms 34 people infected, including models Saaya and Eri Aoki, after visiting Yoyogi park in Tokyo

• Japan and India host trade and security talks

  1 Sep 2014: Five-day visit to Japan highlights growing economic and diplomatic ties between Shinzo Abe and Narendra Modi

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