The UN extended its full support for the Japanese initiative of dialogue with North Korea. In June, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a historic summit in Singapore, signing a joint statement which included a pledge to end Democratic People Republic Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Abe on Wednesday would visit an evacuation center in Kurashiki, a city where a river broke through an embankment and swept through residential areas, killing more than 40 people.
In a statement, the White House said, " Trump and Abe affirmed the shared imperative of achieving the complete and permanent dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and ballistic missile programs.”
Shinzo Abe told reporters Japan was watching to see the impact of sanctions against North Korea, especially at this coldest time of the year. Coal and oil are among the items targeted, making heating supplies scarce in the winter.
PM Modi today held wide-ranging talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe with a focus on further ramping up the special strategic partnership between India and Japan.
Japan was hit by a rare string of bomb threats as US President Donald Trump held talks in Tokyo, a media report citing police officials said on Monday.
Abe, who has been Japan's leader since December 2012, easily won the race with 312 votes in the 465-seat lower house.
Abe's conservative coalition secured a landslide win, winning more than 300 seats in the 465-seat Lower House
PM Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition returned to power in elections yesterday for Japan's more powerful Lower House.
Media tallies showed the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito bloc won 312 seats in the 465-member Lower House.
Abe got a resounding victory in the snap polls held yesterday, with his LDF-led coalition winning two-thirds majority in the lower house of Parliament.
A victory would boost Shinzo Abe’s chances of winning another three-year term next September as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japanese voters may not love Abe, but they appear to want to stick with what they know, rather than hand the reins to an opposition with little or no track record.
Abe said the election in the country would be an appraisal of his handling of the economy and to get support for his hard line against North Korea’s nuclear programmes
Addressing the media persons in Ranchi, Amit Shah affirmed that ‘it is our sovereign right to develop the country inside our boundaries and we will utilise that right’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe had discussed the possibility of boosting investment from Japan in India’s North East when they met for annual summit-level talks in Gujarat.
Akie Abe visited institutes in Ahmedabad and interacted with visually impaired members of an NGO as well as college and school students.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Thursday laid the foundation stone for India's first 508-km high-speed rail project in Ahmedabad.
India’s first bullet train, which is expected to hit tracks by 2022, will connect Ahmedabad to Mumbai, bringing the travel time down from seven hours to less than three
Slamming the bullet train project, NDA ally Shiv Sena on Thursday said the project was not a dream of the common man but that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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