A film by a Japanese woman about her search for justice from uncooperative authorities after she reported being raped is a contender at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Yet, despite being the first full-length documentary made by a Japanese director ever nominated for an Oscar, the movie cannot be seen in her home country. In the film,…
The South Korean police have summoned a Japanese woman for questioning after she was accused of kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a public event last year. The Japanese woman, whose name was not revealed, was in a crowd of fans at the event in Seoul last June that…
A court in western Japan sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to murder the prime minister two years ago with a homemade bomb. The court in the city of Wakayama found Ryuji Kimura, 25, guilty of attempted murder and four charges related to the possession…
NEW DELHI: Post Covid-19 pandemic, Japanese companies are eyeing India as a base as they adopt the ‘China Plus One’ strategy to diversify their manufacturing and supply chains to reduce dependence on China, experts from Deloitte said.The strategy involves establishing production facilities in alternative countries, with India emerging as a significant beneficiary.“Post-Covid, Japanese companies have…
MUMBAI: The popular SIP method for putting money in stocks through the mutual fund route is set to attract Japanese investors to Indian equities. In a first-of-its-kind structure using GIFT City, Nippon India MF is bringing in Japanese retail investors’ money into the Indian stock market using the Nifty BeES index fund. Nissay MF, one…
It began as a scoop in a weekly tabloid: the allegation that a middle-aged former boy-band star turned top television host had paid hush money to a woman for unspecified wrongdoing. Other articles followed, asserting that it was a case of sexual assault, and stirring a wave of public outrage not only toward the ex-singer…
NEW DELHI: Amid inordinate delay in finalising the deal for procurement of Japanese Shinkansen bullet trains for India’s first high-speed Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor, the railway ministry has invited bids for a signalling system that will allow Vande Bharat trains, with a maximum design speed of 280 kpmh, to run on this section.Though the ministry had earlier…
Japanese police arrested a student suspected of a hammer attack at a Tokyo University, which local media said left several injured. The 22-year-old South Korean sociology student was arrested on the spot for allegedly attacking a male student during class at Hosei University’s Tama campus in Tokyo’s western suburbs on Friday, causing him minor injuries,…
Japan’s declining birthrate has reached critical levels, with a leading demographic expert now warning that, if the trend continues, the country could have only one child under the age of 14 by January 5, 2720 — just 695 years from now. Professor Hiroshi Yoshida of Tohoku University has developed a real-time population clock to raise…
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday smilingly opened his address in Japanese during the signing of memorandum of understandings (MOUs) with Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture.The ceremony held in Lucknow, was attended by Kotaro Nagasaki, governor of Yamanashi, who led the Japanese delegation.The MoUs aim to…