Fumio Kishida to be approved Japan's next Prime MinisterThe soft-spoken scion of a Hiroshima political family, Kishida beat popular vaccine chief Taro Kono to win leadership of the ruling Liberal...
04 Oct, 2021, 08.49 AM IST
Popular vaccination minister Kono to enter race for Japan's next leaderKono's decision to throw his hat in the ring for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), left open by Prime Minister Yoshihid...
10 Sep, 2021, 07.30 AM IST
Japan Prime Minister Suga to back vaccine minister Kono to succeed himHours after Suga's announcement, broadcaster TBS reported, without citing sources, that Kono intended to run for head of the Liberal Democr...
04 Sep, 2021, 11.49 PM IST
Japan's struggling PM Yoshihide Suga steps down, sets stage for new leaderSuga's abrupt resignation ended a rollercoaster week in which Suga pulled out all the stops to save his job, including suggestions he would...
03 Sep, 2021, 04.08 PM IST
Japan health minister says Okinawa vaccine contaminants likely from needle stickSome Moderna shots were temporarily halted in Okinawa on Sunday after foreign materials were discovered in vials and syringes. The health m...
31 Aug, 2021, 09.12 AM IST
'Anything can happen' with Tokyo Olympics: Japan ministerTaro Kono, minister for administrative and regulatory reform, did not rule out the possibility of the Olympics being cancelled, with greate...
15 Jan, 2021, 11.06 AM IST
Taro Kono hails Rajnath for being one of most followed defence ministers on TwitterIndia and Japan share close defence ties and last November held their inaugural foreign and defence ministerial dialogue with an aim to giv...
19 Feb, 2020, 03.39 PM IST
Japan indicates efforts on to address India's concerns over RCEPAfter years of negotiations, India last month pulled out of the proposed RCEP over unresolved "core concerns" at a summit meeting of the pa...
01 Dec, 2019, 04.52 PM IST
India and Japan hold first 'two-plus-two' dialogueDefence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar led the Indian delegation. The talks under the new framework are ...
30 Nov, 2019, 06.06 PM IST
Rajnath speaks to Japanese counterpart, discusses bilateral ties, regional security situationDefence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday had a telephonic conversation with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono during which the two leader...
29 Oct, 2019, 05.15 PM IST
India, Japan to collaborate on outer space and cyber security projectsCollaboration in these critical areas gathered pace when external affairs minister S Jaishankar met his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono for ...
02 Jul, 2019, 08.39 AM IST
India-Japan maiden 2+2 talks ahead of Modi-Abe meetingIndia hopes to further expand the scope of cooperation with Japan with 2+2 talks.
05 Jun, 2019, 07.30 AM IST
India, Japan exhorts Indo-Pacific partnership factor of stability in the regionExternal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held the 10th India-Japan Foreign Minister-level Strategic Dialogue with her Japanese counterpart, ...
07 Jan, 2019, 10.37 PM IST
PM Modi discusses bilateral, regional and global issues with Japanese leadersPM Modi arrived in Japan on Saturday to attend the 13th India-Japan annual two-day summit which will seek to review the progress in ties an...
29 Oct, 2018, 01.34 PM IST
Russia’s ties with Pakistan and India cannot be "equalised": Russian ambassadorLast month, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono in a media interview had said that Japan will propose a top-level dialogue with the US, Ind...
12 Jul, 2018, 03.15 PM IST
Nothing concrete on quadrilateral dialogue as of now: Japanese envoyJapan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono last month had said that Tokyo favours a dialogue between Japan, the US, India and Australia to further ...
12 Jul, 2018, 03.07 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj may meet US and Japanese counterpartsThe idea is to give more momentum to India-Japan-US trilateral cooperation, and send out a message to Beijing for its policies in Indo-Paci...
28 Aug, 2017, 12.20 AM IST