Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives Saturday on a brief but hectic official visit that would see him hold talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on trade and investment and defence cooperation besides regional and global issues. Abe, who arrives Saturday afternoon, will hold annual bilateral summit talks with Prime Minister Singh within hours […]
Iran wants Japan to help it build nuclear power plants, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said. The official said he believed Iran and Japan could work together to build facilities that generate electricity. The Japanese leaders are aware of the idea, and it will become one of the key issues linking the two […]
The Japanese government plans to register as state property around 280 remote islands it sees as being within its territorial waters in a bid to strengthen management over them, a senior minister said Tuesday. “The Japanese government plans to register the remote islands as part of its state property to enhance their management” Xinhua quoted […]
India and Japan Monday decided to step up military ties as they discussed issues of regional and global security during talks between Defence Minister A. K. Antony and his visiting Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera here, an official release said. “The two ministers extensively and frankly exchanged ideas regarding regional and global security challenges, as well […]
A key ally of Japan’s ruling coalition Monday announced support to the India-Japan nuclear cooperation talks, saying they should be “accelerated”. Natsuo Yamaguchi, chief of Japan’s New Komeito Party, a junior partner of the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, said here that there should be a “flexible approach” to the issue of nuclear cooperation. “We […]
China and Japan, for the first time, are spending big on biomedical research and development, while the spending by the US has come down. Triggered almost entirely by reduced investment from industry, the R&D spending in the US dropped from $131 billion to $119 billion when adjusted for inflation from 2007-12, while China increased spending […]