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Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Jul 6, 2026
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
From classrooms in India’s northeast to nursing homes in Japan, an emerging labor corridor hopes to improve lives in both countries.
Storage tanks and trucks loaded with gas cylinders in Mumbai.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 4, 2026
Energy-hungry Asia is already drawing lessons from Iran crisis
The region is realizing that it needs bigger buffers, a greater diversity of fossil-fuel suppliers, and a better mix of power sources overall.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strengthened its grip on power by manipulating the electoral process itself.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2026
Modi is rigging Indian democracy
The result of voter purging is an electoral system increasingly designed to favor India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before their meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Thursday
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 2, 2026
Takaichi looks to India in the face of supply chain and energy concerns
Takaichi and her Indian counterpart met in New Delhi to advance cooperation in artificial intelligence, economic security, clean energy and defense.
Sujan Chinoy, director-general of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, in New Delhi on Monday
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 2, 2026
Indian defense think tank head hails Japan’s lifting of arms export ban
The defense research institute head also emphasized the need for Japan to diversify its defense equipment production sites to “trusted” partner countries.
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET
Jun 28, 2026
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
The country’s e-commerce industry runs on the efforts of millions of gig workers, but their health is at stake as Indian cities struggle to improve air quality.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, pose for a group photo ahead of an expanded session of the Group of Seven summit in France on June 16.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2026
Japan and India to set up task force on LNG stockpiling
Japan and India hope to strengthen cooperation in the field of energy security to prepare for future risks of supply disruptions.
A worker refuels a truck at a biogas station next to the Higasinada sewage treatment plant in Kobe in October 2020.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 27, 2026
Japan and India to set up framework for promoting biogas-run cars
The two sides will aim to increase the number of plants in India that manufacture methane from fermented cow dung for compressed natural gas vehicles to 1,000.
U.S. Marines and Japanese and Australian soldiers prepare to take part in Exercise Southern Jackaroo in northeast Australia on May 29. The U.S. military's participation falls under the recently renamed U.S. Pacific Command.
EDITORIALS
Jun 26, 2026
Indo-Pacific name change unnerves many
Names reveal strategic priorities. Even if the area of responsibility has not been altered.
A ship lays undersea fiber-optic cable off a beach near Bilbao, Spain, linking Europe and the U.S.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jun 24, 2026
Japan lays the groundwork for submarine cable resilience
Fiber-optic cables carry nearly all the world’s data between continents.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modu (center right) in Evian, France, last week.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 24, 2026
Venue of Japan-India summit may be changed to New Delhi
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s stay in India is likely to be brief and tightly scheduled due to her parliamentary duties.
Iran is eager to find a wider range of buyers for its oil.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 23, 2026
Iran rushes to woo Asia’s largest oil importers after U.S. waiver
The temporary lifeline should allow Tehran to resume exports and begin clearing a backlog of cargoes on the water.
The J-20S (right) and J-35A stealth fighter jets are exhibited at the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, China, in November 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2026
In selling arms, China is still no superpower
In fact, China’s strategy of avoiding military entanglements and binding security commitments is one of the reasons why it struggles to break through in the export market.
A man harvests sugarcane in a field in the Kolhapur district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, on Feb. 17.
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2026
India likely won’t export sugar for years as El Nino and ethanol squeeze supply
The two challenges could keep millions of tons of sugar off the world market, tightening supplies for importers across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump during the Group of Seven summit in Evian, France, on June 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2026
What’s in a name? America’s Indo-Pacific reversal
The decision to restore the Pacific Command name has raised questions about whether Washington is reducing its emphasis on India within its regional strategy.
Two varieties of Calpis sold by Asahi Group in India
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2026
Asahi to launch Calpis drink in India
Major Japanese beverage maker Asahi Group said Thursday that it will launch its Calpis fermented milk-based drink in India.
U.S. President Donald Trump with Adm. Harry Harris (center right), head of the U.S. Pacific Command, at the command's headquarters in Hawaii in November 2017
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 17, 2026
Pentagon restores U.S. military’s Pacific Command moniker, dropping ‘Indo’
The command’s vast area of responsibility “remains exactly the same,” the Pentagon said, with the move coming amid soured U.S.-India ties.
Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra wears a smartphone on her head and records herself slicing mangoes at her home in Chennai.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2026
The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs
Developers think feeding first-person footage, called “egocentric data,” into specialized AI models will help robots copy humans.
Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul in the Afghan capital on Aug. 15, 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2026
The toll on Afghanistan of five years of Taliban rule
Afghans are asking the world: How long and to what extent must the Taliban continue internal repression and support for terrorism before the world recognizes the threat?
People wait to receive items like hats, towels and water from a government mobile heat relief van in New Delhi on May 29.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jun 15, 2026
Laboring under Delhi’s harsh heat, workers must choose health or wages
Over the decades, summers in India have grown longer and hotter.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Prior to launch, Japan ‘strongly urged’ China to reconsider missile test in Pacific
A missile is fired from a Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine on Monday.
Suspected Asian fraud ring exec served fresh warrant in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka Prefectural Police have issued arrest warrants for three people, including a suspected fraud network leader, over alleged immigration and residency violations.
Japan might be giving the currency market the silent treatment
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has issued verbal warnings recently using the same language and the same tone, saying authorities “will take appropriate action at any time, as necessary.”
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.

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