Japan
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PM Modi has 23 engagements in 40 hours of stay in Japan for Quad summit
India | May 21, 2022, 09:11 PM ISTPM Narendra Modi will interact with at least 36 Japanese CEOs and also with hundreds of Indian diaspora members.
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PM Modi to attend Tokyo Quad summit on May 24, meet Japanese business leaders
India | May 20, 2022, 08:47 AM ISTOn the sidelines of the Quad summit, PM Narendra Modi will participate in a business event with Japanese business leaders. He will also address and interact with the Indian community in Japan, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
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Man in Japan gambles away Rs 2.8 crore from COVID relief funds mistakenly sent to him
Trending | May 19, 2022, 05:32 PM ISTSho Taguchi, a 24-year-old jobless resident in the town of Abu in western Japan, refused to return the money mistakenly sent to him and spent it on gambling.
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New Sony PlayStation 5 model spotted in Japan
Technology | May 19, 2022, 05:05 PM ISTAccording to GizmoChina, the new hardware is going through the certification paces in Japan and just got the construction design certification.
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Japan approves plan to release millions of tons of Fukushima nuclear plant wastewater into sea
World | May 19, 2022, 08:24 AM ISTA massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the Fukushima plant’s cooling systems, causing the meltdown of three reactors and the release of large amounts of radiation.
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US President Joe Biden to travel to Japan for Quad Summit, have bilateral meetings with PM Modi
World | May 19, 2022, 08:19 AM ISTFormed with Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, Quad was an initiative of the Trump Administration, which Biden has elevated to the leadership level.
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'Japan will eventually cease to exist if...': Elon Musk's new tweet
World | May 10, 2022, 03:19 PM ISTElon Musk was tagged in an article on Twitter having latest data on Japan's population, following which he tweeted his response.
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Japan gears up to confront China as tension escalates in Taiwan Strait: Report
World | May 10, 2022, 10:25 AM ISTJapan has started taking measures to build its strength as the Taiwan conflict flare-up will lead to its active involvement, the report said.
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Japan joins G-7 effort to quit Russian oil
World | May 09, 2022, 04:42 PM ISTLeaders from the G-7 countries met online Sunday and announced their commitment to ban or phase out Russian oil imports in their latest effort to pressure Moscow into ending its aggression on Ukraine.
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North Korea test-fired ballistic missile from submarine: South Korea military
World | May 07, 2022, 03:31 PM ISTSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch occurred from waters near the eastern port city of Sinpo, where North Korea has a major shipyard building submarines.
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Will Quad be expanded to include South Korea?
World | May 01, 2022, 10:43 PM ISTUS President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit South Korea ahead of the Quad summit in Japan later this month. He will be holding bilateral meetings with President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese PM Kishida Fumio.
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10 of 26 people from sunken Japan tour boat confirmed dead
World | Apr 25, 2022, 02:45 AM ISTThe search for the others is still ongoing after the boat sent a distress call on Saturday afternoon saying it was sinking. The location, near the Kashuni Waterfall, is known as a difficult place to maneuver boats because of its rocky coastline and strong tide.
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Tour boat with 26 aboard goes missing after sinking in Japan, no survivors found after 7 hrs
World | Apr 23, 2022, 08:35 PM ISTHigh waves and strong winds were observed in the area around noon, according to a local fisheries cooperative. Japanese media reports said fishing boats had returned to port before noon because of the bad weather.
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'You're just doing that to affect us': Biden says Xi Jinping told him Quad was against China
World | Apr 23, 2022, 07:06 AM ISTYou're just doing that to affect us, said Biden recalling when Xi Jinping told him that Quad was against China.
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Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train: Construction of Modi's dream project in full swing | Exclusive
India | Apr 18, 2022, 07:21 PM ISTAccording to the officials of NHSRCL, the trial of bullet train between Mumbai-Ahmedabad will start in 2026 and in 2027 the country's first bullet train will be put to service for the commutters.
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Japan denies getting unofficial invite to join AUKUS military alliance, says 'there is no fact'
World | Apr 13, 2022, 10:32 PM ISTJapan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, however, denied the report on Wednesday, saying that "there is no fact" in the Sankei Shimbun article. Tokyo was "not asked to participate in AUKUS", he said.
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Japan to invest Rs 3.2 lakh crore in India over next 5 years, says PM Modi
India | Mar 19, 2022, 09:23 PM ISTIndia and Japan inked six agreements providing for the expansion of bilateral cooperation in a range of areas, besides firming a separate clean energy partnership.
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Japan to offer India USD 42bn in investments during Fumio Kishida's visit: Report
India | Mar 19, 2022, 04:24 PM ISTThe 5 trillion yen goal exceeds the 3.5 trillion yen in investment and financing over the five years that the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced during his 2014 visit to India
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PM Modi holds bilateral talks with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida at Hyderabad House in Delhi
World | Mar 19, 2022, 05:49 PM ISTThe India-Japan Annual Summit had last taken place in Tokyo in October 2018. India and Japan have multi-faceted cooperation as partners within the ambit of their "Special Strategic and Global Partnership".
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4 killed as 7.4 quake shakes north Japan, cleanup begins
World | Mar 17, 2022, 12:26 PM ISTThe region is part of an area devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that caused nuclear reactor meltdowns, spewing massive radiation that still makes some parts uninhabitable.