Japanese Prime Minister

Requiem for a Japanese statesman who loved India: Abe Shinzo

Abe San believed in India, and it showed. So much so that some of us are in personal mourning. India has lost its best friend, and in a world where it has no friends, that is a tremendous loss

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida to visit India on 19 March for annual summit

Underscoring the importance of the bilateral ties, the MEA spokesperson said both India and Japan have multi-faceted cooperation within the ambit of their special strategic and global partnership

Yoshihide Suga formally elected as Japan's new prime minister, succeeds long-serving leader Shinzo Abe

Suga said he will appoint 'reform-minded, hard-working people' to the new Cabinet. About half of the members in the Abe Cabinet are expected to be retained or shifted to different ministerial posts

Amid Assam protests, Shinzo Abe cancels India-Japan annual summit in Guwahati; MEA's Raveesh Kumar says visit deferred to 'mutually convenient date'

The annual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe scheduled from 15 to 17 December in Guwahati has been cancelled in the wake of massive protests rocking the Assam capital city over the amended citizenship law

Japan urges China to play bigger role in restraining North Korea's nuclear and missile development programmes

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's top security adviser has urged China to play a bigger role in restraining North Korea's nuclear and missile development programmes, Japan's foreign ministry said in a statement.

Shinzo Abe, Donald Trump discuss North Korea over phone as tensions mount

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump on Monday discussed North Korea over the telephone amid heightened tensions surrounding the country.

Japan hostage situation: Islamic State-linked militants say countdown has begun

Militants affiliated with the Islamic State group have posted an online warning that the "countdown has begun" for the group to kill a pair of Japanese hostages.