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INDIA

Japan Times
WORLD
May 20, 2021
'We are waiting to die': Hope fades after India halts vaccine exports
The move has hampered plans for the protection for millions of poorer people around the world caught in the pandemic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 19, 2021
How Mumbai officials made city better prepared for COVID-19 than Delhi
The city's success has partly been attributed to a decentralized system set up during the first wave, which included neighborhood war rooms to manage cases by locality.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 18, 2021
‘Entire families’ wiped out as COVID-19 ravages rural India
As leaders in Delhi struggle to contain the crisis, horrifying scenes are playing out across the country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
May 17, 2021
India's prized 'investment grade' status hanging by a thread
A spate of downgrades last year had already left India's investment grade credit ratings hanging by a thread and the severity of the current virus wave is agitating agencies again.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 14, 2021
India’s virus crisis impacting Japanese firms, clouding short-term outlook
One of the hardest-hit companies is Suzuki Motor Corp., which relies heavily on the Indian market with its Maruti Suzuki India subsidiary.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 14, 2021
Vaccine lottery: Indian states grapple with how to share COVID-19 jabs
India is a major producer of COVID-19 vaccines, but by Monday it had fully vaccinated only 34.8 million people — about 2.5% of the population, government data shows.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 14, 2021
Modi ally taps misinformation law to quash reports on India’s COVID-19 crisis
Journalists report receiving notices stating their reports are false and demanding that they reveal sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 13, 2021
Japan to ban re-entry of foreign residents who visit India, Nepal and Pakistan
The new rules will still allow Japanese nationals to re-enter and will not bar many foreign residents who left before the measure takes effect.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2021
India's oxygen shortage sparks hunt for $1,000 machines
Portable oxygen concentrators are becoming a line of defense for those seeking to avert breathing difficulties while recuperating at home.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
May 12, 2021
Travel restrictions hurt India thrower's Olympic preparation
Neeraj Chopra has been training hard for this year's Olympic Games but India's top javelin thrower fears that not being able to compete internationally might compromise his bid for a medal in Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021
The Western news media’s lurid Orientalism
Western media have been filled with images of dead bodies and other graphic scenes that generally would not be shown following a similar disaster in a Western country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2021
As COVID-19 ravages India, one Mumbai slum succeeds in turning the tide
The pandemic crisis has forced both authorities and local people to rethink sanitation and public health issues.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021
It’s time we learn to live with coronavirus
In reality, no one has definitive answers and stronger restrictions have not resulted in fewer COVID-19 deaths.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2021
India's brutal COVID-19 wave brings tragic scenes to small town hospital
India's brutal second wave has reached the small towns and the countryside, ripping through a fragile health system not equipped to deal with such a large public health crisis.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 11, 2021
What we know about the Indian variant as COVID-19 sweeps South Asia
India has recorded the world's sharpest spike in coronavirus infections this month, with political and financial capitals New Delhi and Mumbai running out of hospital beds, oxygen and medicine.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 9, 2021
Tens of millions face poverty in pandemic-ravaged India
After dipping into his savings to weather India’s snap pandemic lockdown last March, Manoj Kumar was just getting his head above water again earning 600 rupees ($8) a day as a construction worker in the tourist hot spot of Goa.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 9, 2021
EU and India agree on trade reboot to confront China threats
The EU's push to deepen its ties with India as well as other Asian nations comes as tensions with China grow.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
May 8, 2021
World shares India’s pain with growing COVID-19 crisis
The WHO estimates that 25% of global deaths last week occurred in India, a death toll that exceeded 3,700 lives per day.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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