Seoul, Dec 10 (UNI) South Korea’s presidential office reaffirmed Tuesday that the country’s easternmost islets of Dokdo are unequivocally South Korean territory, rejecting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s renewed claim over the islets in the East Sea, Yonhap news reported on Tuesday. A senior presidential official dismissed Takaichi’s remarks made during a parliamentary session earlier…
Tokyo Oct. 21 (UNI) Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba resigned with his cabinet on Tuesday, marking an end to the administration that took office just over a year ago. At an extraordinary cabinet meeting held shortly before 9 a.m. local time, ministers submitted their letters of resignation, and the Ishiba cabinet formally stepped down.
Tokyo/ New Delhi, Aug 30 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today travelled by bullet train from Tokyo to Sendai with his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Ishiba, where he will tour key industrial facilities, including a semiconductor plant and a bullet train coach manufacturing site. The two leaders shared pictures of their train ride on social media….
Tokyo/ New Delhi, Aug 30 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met today with the Governors of 16 Japanese Prefectures in Tokyo and encouraged them to actively leverage the State-Prefecture Partnership Initiative, launched at the 15th Annual India-Japan Summit, to enhance cooperation in trade, technology, tourism, skills, security, and cultural exchange between the two countries. Prime…
Tokyo/New Delhi, Aug 29 (UNI) India and Japan today outlined a roadmap of their bilateral partnership for the next decade and also set a target of 10 trillion yen investment from Japan to India during the same period. This followed talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his host, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, at…
Tokyo, Aug 8 (UNI) Japan’s weather agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning on Friday morning for the city of Kirishima in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, calling for the highest level of caution against landslides and flooding in low-lying areas and overflowing rivers. The highest-level warning on the country’s five-tier disaster alert system, the…
Moscow, May 30 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin has received Akie Abe, the widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “Vladimir Putin received in the Kremlin the widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, killed in an assassination attempt, Akie Abe, who is currently…
New Delhi, May 5 (UNI) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday held a bilateral meeting with Minister of Defence of Japan Gen Nakatani here, and both sides condemned terrorism in all its forms and emphasised the need for global cooperation in this regard. Rajnath condemned Pakistan’s state policy of cross-border terrorism against India, perpetrated…
Seoul, Apr 22 (UNI) South Korea on Tuesday expressed deep regret over Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ritual offering to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on the occasion of its annual spring festival. The South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement that the government expresses deep disappointment and regret over the fact that Japan’s…
Tokyo, Apr 21 (UNI) Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country’s past brutal militarism, on the occasion of its spring festival. Ishiba sent the ritual tree, called “masakaki,” on the first day of the three-day ceremony at the war-linked shrine located…
