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Japan sends largest warships to escort US vessel

The 19,500-tonne ship will escort a US supplies vessel towards the island of Shikoku

Even Japan's automated factories can't fix its productivity problem

Higher productivity is critical to sustaining economic growth

Sakura brightens streets and shops of Japan

Cherry tree blossoms spur marketing campaigns and tourism

Japan looks to India for IT talent, breaks cultural barrier

Japan has renewed its interest in Indian information technology talent. The country is now looking at India to hire software engineers on mobile, cloud and machine learning technologies as it struggles with a shortage of labour to work on emerging areas in its country.The Japanese province - Mie Prefecture, has sought help from Karnataka government to look for local software talent who can migrate to Japan on one-three year projects, ahead of the country launching its Green Card. It is looking to hire a few hundred engineers to begin with from Bengaluru, India's technology hub that has over one million software engineers and slowly expand the need.IT services industry experts and people who have worked in Japan as software engineers say this could be well a shift in the mindset. So far, Japan has hardly considered Indian talent beyond low-cost value addition. "They are an ageing society. They are looking at us for highly skilled software engineers. This will lead to more ...

North Korea missile threat: Japan launches spy satellite

The new satellite will succeed one of the three radar satellites launched in 2011

Japan's green card norm boost for IT

Japan accounts for 2% of the nearly $110-billion IT services export revenue of Indian companies

Forget H1-B: Japan just eased green card norms for skilled foreigners

It will now take just one-two years for skilled foreigners to get permanent residency in Japan

Japan to offer Donald Trump a package to help create 7 lakh jobs in US

Plans envisage investments in infrastructure projects such as high-speed trains and cyber security

Japan to push back Trump's attempts of meddling in domestic policy

Policymakers are slated to discuss Japan's monetary policy with the US President next week

Many Japanese look for a shift to female heirs to the throne

Until the 20th century, emperors kept concubines in order to ensure the birth of male heirs

Japan says preparing for all possible US trade contingencies

This came after US President Trump ditched the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal

Free trade talks with US possible: Japan PM

Trump said the Trans-Pacific Partnership would rob Americans of jobs and investment

Japan exports up for first time in 15 months as yen falls

US protectionism threatens to hurt trade across the region and dent external demand

Japan exports rise after 15 months; US protectionism poses risks

The volume of shipments also rose 8.4 per cent from a year earlier

Japan drags India to WTO against steps on iron, steel imports

India has imposed minimum import price (MIP) on imports of certain iron and steel products

Japan plans record $830 billion spending in FY2017-18

The budgeted plan highlights a struggle PM Shinzo Abe faces in curbing spending

Japan culling 210,000 birds amid spreading avian flu

Just weeks earlier, outbreaks led to a cull of 550,000 chickens in the central city of Niigata

Japan protests Russia missile deployment on disputed islands

The positioning of coastal defence missiles on two of the four islands in contention, reported by Russian media

Quake hits Japan, tsunami warning downgraded

Epicentre of the quake was at a latitude of 37.3 degrees north and a longitude of 141.6 degrees east and occurred at a depth of 30 km

New Japan real estate loans hit record, eclipse bubble economy peak

New real estate lending in the April-Sept period rose 16% from the same period a year earlier to $53.94 billion