Japanese designer Issey Miyake, famed for his pleated style of clothing that never wrinkles and who produced the signature black turtleneck of friend and AppleInc founder Steve Jobs, has died, media s...
Bells tolled in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday to mark the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
In Peace Park in central Hiroshima, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guter...
The latest laurel
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) awards different scientists and students every year.
“I had been to one of the SMBE conferences in Yokohama Japan...
Japan on Tuesday executed a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district in 2008. Justice minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told reporters that To...
Long queues of people, with some dressed in dark suits and holding flowers and flags draped in black ribbons, bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, on Tuesday af...
Japan on Tuesday prepared to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a polarising figure who dominated Japanese politics for decades as the country's longest-serving premier, before being gunned down at a cam...
Officially, Japan divides its calendar into eras that mostly coincide with the reigns of different emperors. Yet, to the rest of the world, Japan has for many years now been in a unique era defined no...
Exit polls in an election in the upper house show that the ruling coalition is securing a majority, two days after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed during an election campaign even...
The Trinamul Congress has cautioned the Central government against the Agnipath scheme, pointing to the fact that Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a short-service ex-se...
Hotter wheels
Sir — Gone are the days when children would get excited about rath yatra. Even a few years ago, most bylanes in Calcutta would have children enthusiastically pulling beautifully d...