Japan: News

11 Dec 2017

South Korea

North Korea crisis: US, Japan South Korea hold missile-tracking drills

North Korea has been advancing its nuclear arsenal at a rapid pace stoking fear within the international community.

11 Dec 2017

India

Is India leaning toward ASEAN to counter China's OBOR?

India is gearing up to host the ASEAN-India connectivity summit this week.

05 Dec 2017

South Korea

What is the status of placements at IITs this year?

With the placement season on at the Indian Institutes of Technology, international firms are reportedly in an "aggressive recruitment mode", intensifying the war for talent at the premier engineering institutes.

01 Dec 2017

Shinzo Abe

Japan's Emperor Akihito to abdicate throne in 2019

83-year old Japanese Emperor Akihito is set to step down from his throne in April 2019. This would mark the end of the imperial era in Japan.

17 Nov 2017

Narendra Modi

Japanese rail operator apologizes after train leaves 20 seconds early

Japan is synonymous with efficiency, punctuality, humility and a desire for achieving perfection.

13 Nov 2017

Uber

Uber seals multi-billion dollar investment from Japan's SoftBank

Ride-hailing giant Uber has sealed a massive multi-billion dollar investment from Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank.

13 Nov 2017

India

Controlling the Indo-Pacific: India, US, Japan Australia resurrect quadrilateral dialogue

In recent times, the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as the fulcrum of global security and economic developments.

Japan targets suicide websites following gruesome "house of horror" murders

The Japanese government said it wants to crack down on websites used by vulnerable people to share their suicidal thoughts.

07 Nov 2017

North Korea

#TrumpInAsia: 'Era of strategic patience with North Korea is over'

US President Donald Trump has kick-started his East Asia tour with a visit to Japan.

07 Nov 2017

India

China hopes India-US-Australia-Japan doesn't harm "third party"

China is worried that the revival of the India-US-Japan-Australia quadrilateral security dialogue would seek to undermine its global influence.

05 Nov 2017

North Korea

Trump begins Asia tour with Japan

US President Donald Trump's arrival in Japan at the start of his marathon Asia tour was cheered on by US and Japanese troops at the Yokota air base near Tokyo.

This Japanese firm gives extra paid leaves to non-smoking workers

A Japanese firm has done what the biggest of nations have failed to accomplish - effectively discourage its people from smoking.

01 Nov 2017

Bharti Airtel

Tata pays $1.2bn penalty to Japan's NTT-DoCoMo, ending 3-year dispute

Settling its three-year-long dispute with NTT DoCoMo, Tata Sons has paid $1.2bn (144.9bn Yen) to the Japanese telco to put an end to the bitter feud over their Indian telecom joint venture, Tata DoCoMo.

01 Nov 2017

Murder

Japan in shock after police find 9 dismembered bodies

Police have found at least nine dismembered bodies hidden in coolers in an apartment near Tokyo.

28 Oct 2017

India

New Delhi "open" to US-India-Japan-Australia quadrilateral strategic dialogue

Japan and America are reportedly urging India to join them and Australia to form a quadrilateral strategic dialogue to counter China's growing regional assertiveness.

27 Oct 2017

India

Japan to propose strategic dialogue with India-US-Australia to counter China

Japan will be proposing the creation of a strategic dialogue between it and the US, India, and Australia, according to Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono.

23 Oct 2017

North Korea

Shinzo Abe's journey to become Japan's longest-serving post-war leader

In 2006, at age 52, Shinzo Abe became Japan's youngest prime minister since World War-II.

23 Oct 2017

North Korea

Japan's Abe gets re-elected as PM for the third time

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner have won 312 out of 465 seats in the lower house of parliament, Diet.

23 Oct 2017

World

Ferocious Typhoon Lan strikes Japan

Japan has been struck by the powerful Typhoon Lan.

23 Oct 2017

North Korea

Japan: Voting begins in snap elections

The polling phase in Japan's recently announced snap elections has started as parts of the country are being affected by Category-IV Typhoon Lan.

21 Oct 2017

India

India's mega-submarine project: Japan, Spain pull out; 4 contenders left

In a new development, Japan and Spain have opted out of their bids to build six advanced-stealth submarines for India under Project-75.

12 Oct 2017

India

Japan to provide on-the-job training to three lakh Indian youths

India has said it will send three lakh youths to Japan for on-the-job training of three-five years as part of the government's skill development program.

06 Oct 2017

World

Why are Japanese people working themselves to death?

"Karoshi" or deaths from overworking have been on the rise in Japan.

25 Sep 2017

North Korea

Japan's Abe announces snap elections amid high approval ratings

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has announced snap elections and said parliament would be dissolved on Thursday.

18 Sep 2017

North Korea

Japan's Abe says world must be united against North Korea

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe said the "international community must stay united and enforce the sanctions" against North Korea.

18 Sep 2017

India

South China Sea: Are India and Japan changing positions?

Keeping China's expansionist tendencies in check is one of the common interests driving the India-Japan relationship.

15 Sep 2017

South Korea

Tensions simmer as North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan

North Korea fired a ballistic missile which flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido island before landing far out into the Pacific Ocean.

14 Sep 2017

North Korea

Modi-Abe slam Pakistan over terrorism in joint statement

After inaugurating India's first bullet train project, Indian PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe strongly pitched for a "zero tolerance" policy against terrorism.

14 Sep 2017

India

The revolutionary Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train: All you need to know!

PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe have laid the foundation stone for the ambitious bullet train project in Ahmedabad.

14 Sep 2017

Technology

Japan's elderly are banking heavily on driverless cars

Automakers are pushing autonomous vehicle technology as the next logical leap.

12 Sep 2017

India

India and Japan: Friends in need, friends indeed

For Indian PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, time is a ticking bomb, because with every passing minute they are coming closer to a problem, that if not remedied, would be catastrophic for both the economies.

06 Sep 2017

Maharashtra

The dark forces behind a growing addiction to porn

The Maharashtra IT department recently revealed that daily, 30,000 users log in to Mumbai's free public Wi-Fi to access porn.

05 Sep 2017

Bengaluru

Meet this extraordinary Bengaluru teacher who crowdfunded students' robot-building dream

This Teacher's Day, meet P Sridhar, an extraordinary robotics teacher at Bengaluru's Seva Bharti Government Higher Primary School.

04 Sep 2017

Technology

This device will tell you if you're stinking!

The Japanese tech company Konica Minolta has come up with an app that will help you self-test if your sweat is bothering others too.

01 Sep 2017

Education

IIMB's new initiative to bolster Indo-Japan ties

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is all set to launch the "India-Japan Study Centre @ IIMB" initiative.

29 Aug 2017

North Korea

North Korea fires missile over Japan in 'unprecedented threat'

Just as the international community was starting to breathe a sigh of relief on North Korea's missile program, they have done it again.

19 Aug 2017

North Korea

US-Japan to expand defense cooperation with India to counter N.Korea

The US and Japan have agreed to expand their multilateral security and defense cooperation with India, South Korea and Australia to counter the growing North Korean threat.

18 Aug 2017

India

Japan backs India, says Doklam status-quo must not change forcibly

Japan has endorsed India's position on the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at Doklam, near the India-China-Bhutan tri-junction area.

09 Aug 2017

Food

Ice-cream that doesn't melt easily, this is what we need!

The saddest feeling in the world is watching your ice-cream melt.

26 Jul 2017

Parliament

Why is PM Shinzo Abe so unpopular in Japan?

After being seemingly unassailable since his ascension to power in 2012, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's popularity has dipped to what political observers term 'death zone levels'.