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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe at a hotel in Yamanakako village, Yamanashi prefecture on October 28, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

India-Japan ties: Can Modi, Abe go beyond personal chemistry?

Prime Minister Abe, who comes from a respected political family, is adept at political diplomacy.

30 Oct 2018 6:48 PM

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Yoshiro Mori (L) and CEO Toshiro Muto at the news conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, where they announced the postponement of the Games until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak. AP Photo

IT'S OFFICIAL: TOKYO OLYMPICS POSTPONED

Japan, Olympics chief agree to postpone 2020 Games by one year as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic

24 March 2020 1:34 PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) with Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto (L) at a recent cabinet meeting. AP Photo

Shinzo Abe and Thomas Bach to discuss the way forward for Tokyo Games

Tuesday's telephonic call also oncludes Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, organising committee chief Yoshiro Mori and...

24 March 2020 8:25 AM

A Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing staff climbs the wall in the test event of Speed Climbing in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Aomi Urban Sports Park in Tokyo last week. AP Photo

Public opinion appears to be growing in Japan against Tokyo Olympics

Poll released by Japan's Kyodo news agency showed 69.9 percent of respondents believe Tokyo will not be able to hold the...

16 March 2020 10:12 AM

Visitors in Japanese Imperial army and navy uniforms walk near Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japans war dead. (AP)

Japan marks 75th anniversary of war end, PM Abe stays silent on...

Abe has increasingly sought to whitewash Japan's brutal past since taking office in December 2012

16 Aug 2020 4:18 AM

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump shake hands after a document signing at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island on Tuesday in Singapore. (Photo: AP)

Japan to halt missile attack drills after Trump-Kim summit, reports...

Japan is eyeing meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, government sources said week...

21 Jun 2018 12:02 PM

US President Donald Trump

Trump threatens to send '25 million Mexicans' to Japan: report

Reportedly, when the topic turned to Iran and terrorism, Trump also took aim at France saying that 'all the terrorists...

16 Jun 2018 6:47 AM

Glen Wood, a Canadian who has lived in Japan for 30 years, plays with his son at a Tokyo park. Wood is fighting a courtroom battle in Japan over what he alleges is paternity harassment. He says major brokerage Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley demoted him and then dismissed him after he took time off to be with his prematurely born newborn son. (Photo: AP)

New father takes company to court for paternity harassment in Japan

Wood returned to work five months after birth and recovery of his son and that's when the harassment started, he says.

6 Jun 2018 5:21 AM

International Olympic Committee headquartersin Lausanne, Switzerland. AP Photo

Tokyo 2020 asks IOC to remove Abe comment regarding Olympic costs

Abe comments became the bone of contention between the Olympic organising partners as the IOC site suggested Japan would...

21 April 2020 9:14 AM

No clarity yet on how cost of postponing Olympics will be shared with...

There were reports that prime minister Abe had agreed that Japan would shoulder the cost amounting to around $3 billion

21 April 2020 4:12 AM

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Yoshiro Mori. AP Photo

Impossible to postpone Olympics again: Tokyo Games chief

When Mori asked PM Shinzo Abe whether Japan should consider a two-year postponement, the latter said "one year is the...

23 April 2020 6:38 AM