The top economic officials from the world’s advanced economies reached a breakthrough on Saturday in their years-long efforts to overhaul international tax laws, unveiling a broad agreement that...

Things are getting complicated in Japan with each passing day. Roughly 10,000 volunteers expected to help in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have quit over the fear of contracting Covid-19...

Is this the dawn of a demographic nightmare? All over the world, countries are now confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust. Falling fertility rates — 83 nations comprising 46 per ...

The president of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee said on Friday that a visit to Japan this month by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of e...

Japan’s Premier extended on Friday a state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas until the end of May to stem a surge in novel coronavirus cases fuelled by the spread of virus variants jus...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8, revised up from an earlier estimate of 6.6, jolted northeast Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings 400km away in Tokyo and raising the possibility of landslides c...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has asked the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) to explore opportunities for a tie-up with Japan to “develop” an early warning syste...

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama stormed home in style to put himself in position to become the first Asian golfer to win the Masters as he held a four-shot lead after the rain-interrupted third round a...

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, an informal arrangement among the United States of America, India, Australia and Japan, has gained prominent space in the larger public domain. On March 12, the US...

The country’s largest lender, the State Bank of India (SBI), on Wednesday said it has raised an additional $1 billion (around Rs 7,350 crore) loan from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (...