Japan

Japan’s second-largest telecom company KDDI has shown its concern to invest in Bangladesh’s 5G network, IOT, other digital technologies and special economic zones and connectivity sectors. The information was exposed when a two-member KDDI delegation supervised...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has urged the Myanmar authority to create an environment conducive to the repatriation of displaced Rohingya people, who took shelter into Bangladesh territory. Prime Minister Abe made the call as State...

At least 26 people were killed by strong Typhoon Hagibis, local media reported, a day after the brutal storm slammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrophic flooding. More than 100,000 rescuers, including 31,000 troops, were...

Almost 80,000 homes are still without power a week after a powerful typhoon battered eastern Japan, authorities said Monday, with sustained heavy rain prompting evacuation orders and hampering recovery efforts. Typhoon Faxai powered into the Tokyo...

South Korea said Wednesday it will file a complaint to the World Trade Organisation over Japan’s “politically motivated” export restrictions, upping the ante in an intensifying dispute with the neighbor. Seoul and Tokyo have been embroiled...

Highly appreciating Bangladesh’s tremendous socioeconomic uplift over the last 10 years, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi today said his country will continue long-term support to Bangladesh in its overall development. “Bangladesh has attained tremendous socioeconomic...

At least one person has died and 49 have been injured after a tropical storm barreled through parts of Japan, state broadcaster NHK reported. Storm Krosa made landfall near Hiroshima in southern Japan on Thursday and...

A volcano near Tokyo has erupted for the first time in four years, throwing ash and smoke nearly two kilometers into the sky and sparking warnings not to approach the mountain. Mount Asama, some 140 kilometers...

A senior U.S. official said on Wednesday Japan and Korea needed to do some “soul searching” about political decisions that have damaged relations between the two U.S. allies in recent months and called for calm words...

A Japanese exhibition featuring a controversial South Korean artwork depicting a wartime sex slave has been canceled after threats of violence as bilateral ties between the countries fray. The cancellation comes as relations between Tokyo and...