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Seoul: North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, forcing Japan to issue evacuation notices and suspend trains during the flight of the weapon that is capable of reaching the US territory of Guam. The launch was the most provocative weapons demonstration by North Korea […]
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Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said his government will back the bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at the UN Security Council. President Wickremesinghe is currently in Japan to attend the state funeral of the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. During a meeting with Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa […]
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According to Japan Times, representatives from over 217 countries and international organizations are expected to participate in the state funeral which is slated to start at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at the Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo.
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San Francisco: Google has announced a new feature that will allow users to buy train tickets in Search in select countries, which will be available in more countries soon. The users in Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan can now shop for train tickets directly on Google Search, for travel in and around select countries. Google […]
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Residential streets were flooded with muddy water from rivers, and swathes of homes lost power after Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall in the Kyushu region Sunday.
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It slowly headed north to the country's main southern island of Kyushu where it could make landfall later Sunday. Nanmadol is forecast to turn east and reach Tokyo on Tuesday.
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"My tributes to Japan's Self Defense Forces personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty," said Rajnath Singh in a tweet.
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IITH-BNVI collaboration is going to usher in a new wave of innovations at IIT-H by investing and mentoring entrepreneurial ideas emerging from the IIT-H start-up community to go beyond bravely from ideas to markets.
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The government in Papua New Guinea announced a new ministry specifically to promote coffee. PM James Marape appointed Joe Kuli as the first minister for coffee. The leader of PNG also appointed Francis Maneke as the minister for oil palm. Coffee is one of the primary sources of livelihood for PNG as 2.5 million people […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wished Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a “speedy recovery from COVID-19.” This comes as amid a sharp spike in COVID cases in Japan. The country’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tested positive Sunday for the novel coronavirus. In a tweet, PM Modi wrote, “Wishing my friend Prime Minister […]
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The Japanese government’s new campaign “Sake Viva!” has triggered quite a debate on social media platforms. Citizens of Japan are letting their dissent known on social media, with many criticizing the new scheme. Japanese authorities asked its citizens to consume more alcohol as the country is experiencing a constant decline in alcohol sales and revenue […]
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Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff said she will soon approach the Indian and the Japanese governments for a DNA test of the ashes at Tokyo’s Renkoji Temple. In an interview to PTI, Pfaff said resolving the mystery shrouding Bose’s life and bringing back the ashes to India would be a true […]
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Tokyo: Japan’s population totaled 125.93 million as of January 1, 2022, representing the largest drop in the overall number and by percentage since comparable data were recorded in 1950, the latest government data revealed on Wednesday. As deaths exceeded births and Covid-19 border controls restrict the entry of foreigners, Japan’s overall population fell to 125,927,902, […]
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Tokyo: Japan on Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that took place in the final days of the Second World War. A moment of silence was observed at 8.15 a.m., the exact moment when a uranium bomb dropped from a US bomber detonated over the city on August 6, 1945, […]
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Tokyo: Japan’s health ministry has approved the use of a smallpox vaccine believed to be effective against monkeypox. The smallpox vaccine approved by the ministry is thought to be 85 per cent effective against monkeypox, health officials said. The move came after Japan confirmed two cases of the disease in late July in men in […]
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In the untimely death of Shinzo Abe, the longest serving Prime Minister of Japan, the world has lost a truly global statesman who passionately advocated closer India-Japan ties and sought to move beyond Tokyo’s post-war pacifist worldview. Having served two terms as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2007 and then from 2012 to 2020, Abe […]
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Tokyo: As an investigation into the assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues, local media reports revealed that the man who was detained after Abe was shot served in the Japanese Navy for three years. Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old resident of Nara City, in western Japan shot Abe while he was during a […]
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Tokyo: Police in Japan have said that a 90-member task force will be set up to investigate the murder case of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who died after being shot at while addressing an election campaign rally in Nara city. The announcement was made late Friday night by the Nara prefectural police at a press […]
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Tokyo: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on Friday after he was shot while addressing an election rally in the city of Nara, according to state media. “Officials say former Japanese Prime Minister #Abe Shinzo has been confirmed #dead. He was reportedly #shot during a speech on Friday in the city of #Nara, near Kyoto,” […]
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Tokyo: Shinzo Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, collapsed and showed no life signs after he was shot at while addressing a crowd in Nara prefecture on Friday, state media said in a report, adding that the police have arrested a suspect. According to state broadcaster NHK, the incident took place at around 11. 30 […]
