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Sanae Takaichi’s Rise: What Japan’s first female PM means for India–Japan relations

October 23, 2025 3:13 pm

As Takaichi takes office, New Delhi and Tokyo eye deeper cooperation in defence, infrastructure, human capital, and Indo-Pacific connectivity

Japan elections: The post-Abe consensus has fractured

July 22, 2025 4:43 pm

For now, Ishiba has chosen to stay in power, even as calls for his resignation grow within LDP ranks. Without a clear majority, he must now cobble together issue-based alliances with opposition parties

Japan ex-PM Abe's state funeral to cost over $12 million

September 06, 2022 9:08 am

The government is now estimating the security fee for the funeral will reach about 800 million yen, while hosting foreign delegations will cost about 600 million yen, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno announced.

Abe killing points to possible pitfalls of Agnipath scheme: TMC

July 11, 2022 10:47 am

The BJP said that such apprehensions are baseless.

Japan PM Kishida set to consolidate ruling party power as Abe mourned

July 11, 2022 10:33 am

The ruling conservative coalition, led by Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), extended its majority in the upper house of parliament

Daily Briefing: PM Modi mourns the death of Japan Ex PM Shinzo Abe; cloudburst in Amarnath

September 03, 2022 11:09 am

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A timeline of the career of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

July 08, 2022 5:15 pm

Shinzo Abe was fatally shot while giving a speech at a campaign event in the city of Nara. Police arrest a male suspect but no motive was immediately known.

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Japan’s most popular candidate for prime minister is far from a shoo-in

September 29, 2021 9:05 am

Polls have found that the public favors Taro Kono, the Cabinet minister overseeing Japan’s coronavirus vaccine rollout, by at least 2-to-1 in the race to lead the governing Liberal Democratic Party — which, in effect, is the race to become prime minister.

Padma Vibhushan for Abe; Gogoi, Keshubhai, Paswan in honours list

January 26, 2021 12:11 pm

The Padma Shri was awarded to 102 individuals – 29 of the Padma awardees were women; there were 10 in the category of foreign nationals, NRI, PIO AND OCI and one transgender.

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Who takes over if Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decides to go?

August 26, 2020 1:51 pm

One of the reasons Abe has endured to become Japan’s longest-serving prime minister has been the lack of open dissent in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Some potential candidates may be holding fire while he’s in office, but a large degree of continuity is likely in managing the world’s third-largest economy.