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Japan's Parliament passes 2 Security laws to amend its pacifist constitution

Japan’s parliament has passed two security laws to amend its pacifist constitution framed after WWII to allow its troops to fight abroad. The bills already have been approved...

September 19, 2015

Japan nuclear reactor for first time start operations since Fukushima Nuclear disaster

Japan for the first time has switched on a nuclear reactor nearly two years after all nuclear power stations were closed aftermath of the Fukushima disaster of 2011....

August 12, 2015

70th anniversary of Atomic bomb dropping on Nagasaki observed

70th anniversary of dropping of disastrous Atomic bomb on Nagasaki city of Japan was observed across the world. A solemn ceremony including ageing survivors, relatives of victims observed...

August 10, 2015

DIPP accepts ADB, JICA plans on industrial corridors

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has given nod to Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for their conceptual development plan (CDP) report...

July 31, 2015

Japan's Nikkei buys Financial Times in $1.3-bn deal

The two leading financial news operations from Europe and Asia are now together, as Nikkei Japanese media group is going to buy the Financial Times from Britain’s Pearson...

July 31, 2015

Japan pledges 26% emissions cut by 2030

World’s sixth biggest greenhouse gas polluter, Japan has pledged to cut emissions 26 per cent from 2013 levels by 2030 in a bid to fight calamitous global warming....

July 20, 2015

Meiji Period Sites of Japan gets UNESCO World Heritage Site Status

Japan’s Meiji-era (1868-1912) industrial revolution sites have received World Cultural Heritage status from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Decision in this regard was taken during...

July 7, 2015

US wins Women's FIFA World Cup for 3rd time

United States (US) won the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It is overall third world cup title of US. In the World Cup final match played at Vancouver,...

July 6, 2015

Historian-writer Ramachandra Guha selected for Japan's Fukuoka Prize

Eminent Historian-writer Ramachandra Guha has been selected for Japan’s Fukuoka Prize 2015 in n the Academic category. Apart from him Thant Myint-U (Grand Prize category) and Minh Hanh...

June 20, 2015

C.N.R. Rao conferred with Japan's highest civilian award ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’

Eminent scientist and Bharat Ratna awardee C.N.R. Rao was conferred with Japan’s highest civilian award the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. He was presented...

June 19, 2015

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