Tokyo: The Delhi Metro's expansion plans got a boost with Japan keen to participate in its future projects as well as carry out feasibility study for the capital's mono rail systems and urban transportation. "We met the Japan International cooperation agency (JICA) officials yesterday and talked about participation in metros, also to look if they can do a study for mono rail systems and urban transportation," visiting Urban Development minister...
04:11 PM, May 24, 2012
Tokyo: The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation decks of the 634-meter (2,080-foot) tower to mark its opening. Some reportedly waited in line more than a week to get the coveted tickets for a panoramic view, though on Tuesday ended up being cloudy in Tokyo. Skytree...
11:50 AM, May 22, 2012
Sydney: A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday broke her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, a media report said. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,848-metre-high summit from the northern side of the mountain with four other team members, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) quoted Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association as saying. Watanabe and the other team members were...
09:32 PM, May 19, 2012
Tokyo: Asian shares steadied on Thursday from the previous day's sell-off, but investors found no reason to bet on risk amid deepening turmoil in Greece and fears of contagion to other stressed euro zone economies. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched up 0.1 percent, after sliding more than 3 percent for its biggest one-day drop in six months on Wednesday. The index hit a new 4-month low...
08:07 AM, May 17, 2012
Kamal K Sharma Designation: Managing Director, Lupin The Challenge: To enter the Japanese market, the world's second largest pharmaceutical market How He Did It: By entering the market with a partner and using them to understand the nuances. Lupin eventually bought the partner out, but made sure no changes were made to its management or operations In Japan, you just can't walk in and do business. It is a market...
04:46 PM, May 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As part of the 60th year of India-Japan diplomatic relations, Discover Japan Festival-2012, a three-day cultural festival and industrial expo, will begin in the city on Friday. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the festival, jointly organised by Japanese Cultural and Information Centre, Alumni Society of AOTS and Terumo Penpol, at 5 pm on Friday at VJT Hall. Chief Secretary K Jayakumar will preside over the function. Masanori Nakano,...
11:37 AM, May 08, 2012
Tokyo: A tornado tore through a city northeast of Japan's capital on Sunday, killing one person, injuring dozens of others and destroying scores of houses. Firefighters and medical teams rushed to the area after the tornado struck Tsukuba city, 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Tokyo. The city is a science centre, with dozens of research and academic institutes, but the tornado appeared to mostly hit residential areas. A 14-year-old boy...
10:26 AM, May 07, 2012
Tokyo: Japanese utility Hokkaido Electric Power Co began shutting the country's last active nuclear reactor on Saturday, leaving the world's third-biggest user of atomic energy with no nuclear-derived electricity for the first time since 1970. A crisis at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where an earthquake and tsunami in March last year triggered radiation leaks, has hammered public faith in nuclear power and prevented the restart of reactors...
03:29 AM, May 06, 2012
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba has said that Japan has engaged in very concrete discussion with India on how the two countries may advance the economic cooperation. Speaking to CNN-IBN's deputy foreign editor Suhasini Haidar on her show World View, the Japanese foreign minister said that the two countries have not been able to capitalise on the huge potential because there has been a cap over it. Here is the...
12:45 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to strengthen the commercial ties between the two countries, India and Japan on Monday agreed to boost cooperation in infrastructure projects in DMIC, railways and energy sectors at their first Economic Dialogue. Besides the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the two countries also agreed to accelerate cooperation in infrastructure development in the areas along the Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor. "We discussed the entire gamut of issues in which...
03:58 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding India and Japan deciding to move forward with discussions on civil nuclear co-operation, Tokyo on Monday maintained that there was no change in its stand that New Delhi has to join the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, though it is not a pre-condition for the atomic deal. "We have reminded India time and again that it has to join the NPT. This message has been repeatedly conveyed to India....
01:49 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: India and Japan will hold the first-ever economic dialouge on Monday, a move which reflects increasing trade ties between the two countries which will also be holding series of to deepen the strategic, economic and political ties. While the first India-Japan Ministerial-level Economic Dialogue will focus on giving boost to trade and economic relations, the 6th annual Strategic Dialogue between the two countries are expected to discuss civil...
02:40 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Tokyo: The good thing is that Misaki Murakami's name was on his soccer ball. It was lost in last year's tsunami in Japan but has been found across the Pacific on a remote Alaskan island. Kyodo News agency says the 16-year-old from the devastated town of Rikuzentakata is surprised and thankful that the ball has been found. Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the ball is one...
02:05 PM, Apr 23, 2012
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