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NARENDRA MODI

COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2014
While borderlands simmer, Modi hosts the visiting Xi
Away from the choreography of high diplomacy between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, more than 200 Chinese soldiers entered disputed territory to build a road.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 25, 2014
With canal and hut, India stands up to China on disputed frontier
Earlier this month, Indian troops on a remote Himalayan plateau built a small observation hut from where they could watch Chinese soldiers across the disputed border.
COMMENTARY / Japan / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 6, 2014
Showmanship trumps substance during Modi visit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is re-energizing Indian diplomacy and trying to carve out a more dynamic role for his country in global affairs. He has just wrapped up a visit to Kyoto and Tokyo, playing the role of pitchman-in-chief and holding a summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
EDITORIALS
Sep 3, 2014
Japan and India's China challenge
Japan and India may find themselves talking at cross purposes if Tokyo is seeking closer ties with New Delhi as a means to counterbalance China's growing influence and assertiveness in the region.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 2, 2014
Asia's best friends shape an axis
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's watershed visit to Japan, and the bear-hug welcome from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have added concrete content to a relationship embodying Asia's emerging democratic axis.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 2, 2014
Modi goes to Japan chasing a foolish crush
It is hard not to suspect naivete in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to model India's economy on Japan's postwar achievements. After all, Japan owes much of that economic miracle to America's willingness to open its own markets to Japanese manufacturers while turning a blind eye to Japan's blatantly protectionist trade policies.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2014
Modi touts India as vast market for Japanese firms
Visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Tuesday on Japanese companies to tap into Indian markets, stressing the South Asian nation has three important elements when it comes to business: democracy, human resources and vast demand.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 1, 2014
Abe, India's Modi agree to boost security, economic ties amid China's increasing territorial ambitions
The leaders of Japan and India agree to boost security and economic ties amid China's increasing territorial ambitions and military strength.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2014
Indian leader Modi arrives for summit with Abe
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport on Saturday for a five-day visit in which he is expected to seek stronger security and economic ties with Japan in the face of China's rising territorial ambitions and military might.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2014
India's Modi eyes breakthrough nuclear pact on Japan trip
Indian leader Narendra Modi will try to assure Japan it will not conduct weapons tests or divert fuel when she visits Tokyo to sign a nuclear energy pact.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2014
Grading the Modi government
By the way he talks, new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi might appear to be replicating his Gujarat state model of learning to walk before starting to run with headstrong solutions to the big problems facing the country. Even so, he will have to walk the walk sooner than later.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 25, 2014
Modi's focus on the India-Japan relationship
Given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's admiration for India, expect Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Tokyo to bring about a major transformation in India-Japan relations.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2014
Asia's budding reform trinity
Three of Asia's most populous countries — China, India and Indonesia — are poised to enter a historical sweet spot, as their respective leaders build a reputation as one of his country's greatest modern reformists.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2014
Eurasia's 'Reagan revolutions' degrade democracy
The three boastful, rabble-rousing leaders of Turkey, India and Russia possess ideological bases like the one U.S. President Ronald Reagan had among Christian fundamentalists and neoconservative intellectuals.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2014
Intransigent India
India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, has perplexed international supporters by torpedoing a World Trade Organization deal that would have reformed customs rules and made global trade much easier.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2014
Build strong Japan-India ties without taking aim at China
In Tokyo and New Delhi, there are people seeking to elevate Indo-Japanese relations to the status of a de facto alliance and to pursue a strategy of encircling China.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2014
India naval drill with Japan, U.S. seen as signal to China
Traffic at the Maritime Self-Defense Force base at Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, is typically dominated by Japanese and U.S. warships, but in July it saw an unusual variety of vessel. An Indian frigate and destroyer docked en route to joint exercises in the Western Pacific.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2014
Growth India can live with
India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, seems committed to boosting India's competitiveness by improving its business climate. What his plan lacks, though, is a strong focus on expanding labor-intensive industries.
COMMENTARY / Japan / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 19, 2014
Modi's upcoming Japan visit signals closer ties
India's newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming to Tokyo in August to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, signaling closer bilateral ties infused by personal chemistry and shared values. The Namo-Shinzo show will be an elaborately choreographed red-carpet extravaganza to highlight the two...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2014
Giving a resolute pro-India neighbor its due
It's an indication of the ham-handed manner in which Indian foreign policy is managed that even relations with Bhutan have seemed troubled in the past few years.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

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