A woman from an Indian tour group in Japan was allegedly caught shoplifting at a souvenir shop and later tried to offer money to both the shopkeeper and police officers as bribes after being caught, according to a viral post on X.The account was shared by Muthukrishnan Dhandapani, who said the incident happened during a […]
Australian Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on May 26, 2026. Photo: X/@narendramodi via ANI India and Australia will continue to work for a free, open, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) after he held discussions with Australian Foreign Minister […]
Across Japan, something unusual is happening in plain sight. Entire neighbourhoods have houses that still stand, but nobody lives inside them anymore. Windows stay closed for years. Gardens grow wild, and paint fades slowly in the weather and over time. Reportedly, Japan has around 9 million vacant homes, a figure that keeps increasing. It feels […]
Karan Johar’s recent visit to Tokyo has sparked fresh interest online after a glimpse of his interaction with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway during the promotional tour of The Devil Wears Prada 2 surfaced on social media. The short preview, shared by Twentycs India, offers an early look at their meeting, while the full conversation […]
Rashmika Mandanna is set to make another global appearance as she returns as a presenter at the 10th edition of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. The ceremony is scheduled to be held on May 23, 2026, at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa, marking her second stint at the prestigious event. Rashmika Mandanna returns to Crunchyroll […]
When Malaysia set out to build the Petronas Twin Towers in the 1990s, it adopted an unusual strategy that would later become the stuff of engineering legend. Instead of assigning the project to a single contractor, the government split the work between two rival international consortia, one led by Japan and the other by South […]
In a move that signals a shift in how speed and logistics intersect, Japan has transformed one of its iconic bullet trains into a high-speed cargo carrier. The initiative by East Japan Railway Company marks the launch of the world’s first dedicated freight-only Shinkansen, repurposing a former passenger train to transport goods at speeds of […]
PC: The National Interest The phenomenon of an aeroplane that flies ‘before it takes off’ is not an error in the continuum of space-time; it regularly happens as a result of the way trans-Pacific aircraft cross the International Date Line (IDL) between Japan and California. According to NOAA, a flight from Japan to California, if […]
More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of another disaster of this kind occurring in their country. A recent survey indicates that the memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake that happened in 2011 is still alive in the […]
At first glance, the Caspian Sea appears as an ocean stretching endlessly to the horizon, lapping the shores of five nations. Yet scientists classify it not as a sea, but as Earth’s largest lake, an immense inland body spanning roughly 371,000 square kilometres, surpassing Japan in size. Straddling Europe and Asia, it borders Russia, Azerbaijan, […]
