Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives on Monday in a three-day visit to Japan.
His talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be held in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Abe and Singh's visit to India to discuss the Emperor and Empress of Japan, which could take place as early as this year.
It is expected that India will offer Abe loans totaling approximately $ 700 million for the construction of the subway line in the western city of
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Japan Atomic Energy Agency reported that the new data has confirmed 24 people have been exposed to radiation from the accident last week.
The accident occurred in the laboratory agency in Ibaraki prefecture north of Tokyo, when the researchers bombarded the gold proton beams to generate the elementary particles.
Previously, the agency reported that radiation exposure were six male researchers.
Further tests of those who were in the acci
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Premier Li Keqiang requires that all the territories Japan has returned, which he said had been stolen from China.
Lee said this on Sunday after he arrived on Saturday in a three-day visit to Germany. He was referring to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, which are controlled by Japan, but which China makes its own.
On Sunday, Lee visited the city of Potsdam near Berlin.
He said that the adoption of Japan the Potsdam Declaration
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80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura said he received a beautiful gift, having made a successful ascent of Mount Everest.
Miura began his ascent from the base camp at an altitude of 5,300 meters on May 16. Last Thursday, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest at an altitude of 8,848 meters, becoming the oldest conqueror of the highest peak in the world.
On Sunday the 80-year-old Miura was taken by helicopter from a height of 6,400 meters in Nepal's capital Kathmandu.
The Japanese film "Like father, like son" won a special jury prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
This film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda was part of the twenty bands competition program of the festival, claiming the Palme d'Or.
The film is about a married couple who found out that his son, whom they raised six years, is not their biological child, because children mixed up in the hospital.
Koreeda said that he wants to share
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Japan's prime minister is visiting Myanmar, leading the mission, the purpose of which is to build relations with this country.
The plane of the Prime Minister of Japan on Friday landed at the airport in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese leader to visit the country for 36 years.
During the three-day visit Abe plans to visit a special economic zone near Yangon Tilava. In addition, he will meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Officials from the Government of Japan for the first time to take part in the negotiations on free trade in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in July.
Representatives of the governments of 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region have completed another round of TPP negotiations in Lima, Peru on Friday. The next meeting participants agreed to hold in Malaysia from 15 to 25 July.
Japan will not be able to take part in the negotiations TPP until July 23, until you complete the appropriate procedure in the United States. This means that in the July round negotiation Japan will participate for
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An influential advisory body to the government of Japan is finalizing proposals on how to reduce, beginning from 2021 fiscal year, the ratio of government debt to GDP of the country.
The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan plans to finalize the program of medium-and long-term fiscal recovery to the next month.
By March next year, when Japan will end the current fiscal year, total public debt in Japan, including the debt of the central government and local authorities to reach the amount in excess of $ 9 trillion 100 billion.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the damaged nuclear power plant "Fukushima Dai-ichi" is expected later this year completely bring into the cleaning system of the accumulated radioactive water from the reactors.
System ALPS, in question is able to filter out 62 types of radioactive substances.
Tokyo Denryoku has three such installations. In one of them the end of the test conducted in March.
On Friday morning, the stock prices in Tokyo went up again. The key Nikkei index rose more than 500 points, surpassing the one of the highlights of the mark of 15,000 points.
That day came mainly applications for the purchase of shares, the price of which fell on Thursday.
According to exchange sources, increasing a sense of relief after not happen too significant drop in stock prices in New York, although quotation fell in Asia and Europe. Stock exchange sources said that many investors want some time to see whether or not to continue the recent trend for the stock.
