India and Japan will begin three-day maritime drills in the northern Arabian Sea starting Saturday, a spokesman for the Indian Navy said on Friday, days after India conducted an exercise with Australia in the Indian Ocean. The India-Japan Bilateral Maritime Exercise (JIMEX) is held every two years. Its last edition …
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India and Japan pledged on Friday to carry out the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project and welcomed a memorandum of cooperation on specific skilled workers to be signed in the near future. Both topics featured in the first telephone conversation between Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, and his Indian counterpart, …
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The G4 countries – Brazil, India, Japan and Germany – on Wednesday expressed disappointment at attempts to derail the United Nations reforms and called for text-based negotiations within a fixed deadline to renew the world body. The foreign ministers of the four countries, during a virtual meeting during the 75th …
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The second ministerial meeting of the Quadrilateral or Quad Security Dialogue is expected to be held in Tokyo early next month, people familiar with the developments said, and the meeting will be held in the context of China’s aggressive actions in the Indo-Pacific. . The meeting will take place at …
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India and Japan are considering cooperating on projects in Bangladesh and Myanmar as part of their efforts to work together in third countries, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. The East India-Japan Law Forum, which focuses on specific projects to modernize the Northeast region of India, is also of …
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The leader of the Japanese ruling party, Yoshihide Suga, was elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday, becoming the country’s first new prime minister in nearly eight years. Suga’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party used its majority in the powerful lower house of parliament, which is empowered to elect …
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If Shinzo Abe was born to be Japan’s prime minister, the path to political stardom for his potential successor was hardly guaranteed. Many political analysts see Yoshihide Suga as the frontrunner to replace Prime Minister Abe, who announced last month that he was leaving office due to complications related to …
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After an errant forehand in the first set of the US Open final, Naomi Osaka looked at her coach in the almost empty Arthur Ashe Stadium bleachers with her palms up, as if to say, “What the hell is going on?” In response to another whimsical forehand against Victoria Azarenka …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday applauded his counterpart and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Twitter feed for underscoring India’s ties to Japan, calling it a glimpse into the strong bilateral ties between the two countries. “Great thread, offering insight into the strong friendship between India and Japan, as well …
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Months before announcing his resignation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a policy change that could allow the Japanese military for the first time to plan strikes against ground targets in China and other parts of Asia. The Japan Self-Defense Forces are geared towards stopping attackers in the air and at …
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