Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted Prime Minister by Parliament on Wednesday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of ...

Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, a loyal aide to outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, won a landslide victory in a ruling party leadership election on Monday, paving the way for Japan&r...

Sir — Shinzo Abe has stepped down from the position of the prime minister of Japan, and left a great political vacuum (“Abe resigns as PM”, Aug 29). The prolonged disease with which ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving Premier, announced his resignation because of poor health on Friday, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy in w...

The India-Japan summit scheduled to be held in Guwahati from Sunday has been postponed in view of the ongoing protests in Assam over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, putting paid to Prime Minister Nar...

Mamata Banerjee said on Friday the nation’s honour had been “thrown to the dust”, alluding to reports of Japan’s Prime Minister and two Bangladesh ministers cancelling India visits in the wake...

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill appears to have alienated Bangladesh — India’s most steadfast friend in South Asia in recent years — and also cast a shadow on the optics-laden meeting Prime Min...

India and Japan have deepened their engagement in the Northeast with both the countries outlining new initiatives and Japan providing three more loans. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Japan on Oc...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held informal talks at a resort near Mount Fuji on Sunday and visited a robot-manufacturer’s factory, spending about eight hours ...

Facing their strongest headwinds in decades, Olympic chiefs acknowledged on Wednesday there was no “ideal” solution to staging the Tokyo Games even as voices of dissent grew louder amid the corona...