Japan

* India and Japan have signed an MoU on 12th December, 2015 on cooperation and assistance in the Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project (Bullet Train project). * Japan has offered an assistance of over Rs. 79,000 crore for the…

"PM Modi's economic policies are like Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed railway network) — high speed, safe and reliable and carrying many people along," said Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. Here are the following key developments during Modi-Abe…

The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) Project has been planned as a global manufacturing and investment destination along the 1483 kilometer long Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC). It is envisaged that Shendra Bidkin…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped in personally to convince the international community that Fukushima nuclear disaster won't happen again to get the final nod for Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Tokyo, which hosted…

Japan recently unveiled its new ‘magnetically levitated’ bullet train, designed to travel at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour. The train was put on an outdoor test track in Yamanashi region of central Japan. Interestingly, the train…

About 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal – suspects Yahoo Japan Corporation. They are not confirmed but doubt it seeing the volume of…

TNI Bureau: A powerful earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale, hit Japan's northeast coast today. A tsunami alert has been issued in the region. Tsunami is expected to hit Iwate Coast at around 5:40 PM. Miyagi Pefecture, which…

TNI Bureau: Sony Corp announced that it will cut jobs of around 2,000 staff at its headquarters in Japan. Recently the company revealed this plan providing new details of a previously announced plan to trim its global headcount by 10,000 by…

By Himanshu Guru: Japan marks the 67th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima in an annual ceremony with a gathering of around 50 thousand people today at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, the epicenter of the big…