Blackstone plans to acquire major Japanese engineering staffing firm TechnoPro Holdings for about 500 billion yen ($3.39 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.
Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons
The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons ...
Japan’s biggest-ever wage hike: what it solves ― and what it doesn’t
Japan is targeting a record minimum wage hike that could lift (millions?) ― or strain businesses already under pressure.
Japan’s record heat stifling vegetable production
The intense heat that continues to grip wide areas of Japan is now affecting the growing of vegetables. Koyama Misao grows about 160 varieties of vegetables at his farm in Tachikawa City, western ...
Japan clinches landmark $6.5 billion warship deal with Australia
Japan clinched a landmark A$10 billion ($6.5 billion) deal on Tuesday to build Australia's next-generation warships, marking Tokyo's most consequential defence sale since ending a military export ban ...
To Japan, via Jaipur. Why Ukraine’s First Lady made a surprise stop in India
A plane ferrying Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska and officials made an unscheduled refuelling stop at Jaipur Airport en route to Tokyo to seek support for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The high-level ...
Terrifying video shows flash flood engulfing riverside village in India
Dozens of people are feared trapped after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Videos from the site of the accident show a giant stream of water gushing through the area and engulfing Dhanali,
Modi was ready to ‘make India great again,’ then Trump put America first
U.S. ties with India, a key security partner in Asia, are being tested by trade, tariffs and New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.
Thousands join Bangladesh rallies, concerts one year after Hasina’s ouster
DHAKA (Reuters) -Thousands of exultant Bangladeshis gathered in the capital of Dhaka on Tuesday for rallies, concerts, and prayer sessions to mark the first anniversary of deadly protests that ousted ...
Factbox-Bangladesh grapples with fraught politics a year after former PM Hasina fled
Bangladesh marks on Tuesday a year since long-serving former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the South Asian Islamic nation following student-led protests, but it is still grappling with instability ...