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INDIA

COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2014
Grading the Modi government
By the way he talks, new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi might appear to be replicating his Gujarat state model of learning to walk before starting to run with headstrong solutions to the big problems facing the country. Even so, he will have to walk the walk sooner than later.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 25, 2014
Modi's focus on the India-Japan relationship
Given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's admiration for India, expect Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Tokyo to bring about a major transformation in India-Japan relations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2014
Suzlon in talks for Japanese offshore wind partner, Tanti says
India's Suzlon Energy Ltd. may seek a Japanese partner to make offshore wind turbines, attracted by access to cheap yen loans as projects at sea get costlier and more complex.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2014
Asia's budding reform trinity
Three of Asia's most populous countries — China, India and Indonesia — are poised to enter a historical sweet spot, as their respective leaders build a reputation as one of his country's greatest modern reformists.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2014
Eurasia's 'Reagan revolutions' degrade democracy
The three boastful, rabble-rousing leaders of Turkey, India and Russia possess ideological bases like the one U.S. President Ronald Reagan had among Christian fundamentalists and neoconservative intellectuals.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2014
Intransigent India
India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, has perplexed international supporters by torpedoing a World Trade Organization deal that would have reformed customs rules and made global trade much easier.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2014
Indians face a dilemma over Israel
The conflicting demands of continuing to strengthen ties with Israel while courting other states in the region, especially Iran, will remain a tough task for Indian diplomacy.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2014
History wars restarted to hook schoolchildren
South Asian well-wishers of Indian Prime Minister Nerendra Modi may not be amused to hear that books will be sent to the schoolchildren of Gujarat, describing an 'undivided India' that encompasses the nation-states of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2014
India naval drill with Japan, U.S. seen as signal to China
Traffic at the Maritime Self-Defense Force base at Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, is typically dominated by Japanese and U.S. warships, but in July it saw an unusual variety of vessel. An Indian frigate and destroyer docked en route to joint exercises in the Western Pacific.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2014
Growth India can live with
India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, seems committed to boosting India's competitiveness by improving its business climate. What his plan lacks, though, is a strong focus on expanding labor-intensive industries.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 28, 2014
A trip around the Yushukan, Japan's font of discord
Often overlooked in discussions about Yasukuni is the divisive role played by the Yushukan, the war museum built within the shrine grounds to promote the 'Yasukuni doctrine.'
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2014
India's defense sector faces the malcontents
Once again, India is being courted as a potentially lucrative market for global defense contractors, but after so many false starts in the past, the new Modi government will have some convincing to do.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2014
How World War I inspired independent India
It's been almost forgotten that more than 1 million subjects of undivided colonial India fought in World War I for the Allies — about 75,000 lost their lives — following a massive recruitment drive by their British masters. The new age of nationalism ushered in by the Great War inspired Indian independence.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2014
Resetting India's foreign and security policies
The Modi government is reported considering allowing up to 49 percent 'foreign direct inviestment' in India's defense sector —without requiring technology transfers — as it manages modernization.
Japan Times
JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Jul 7, 2014
Future leader shows promise with African aid work, British schooling, and Japan politics in sight
When Doga Makiura arrived in Rwanda in 2012, the 18-year-old was amazed to find not the stains of the 1994 genocide, but a tidy airport, impressive high-rises and welcoming people.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2014
'Black money' fairy tale drives Indian adults
Millions of adult Indians enthusiastically propagate a fairy tale that says once a strong government brings billions of dollars of 'black money' home, India will cease being poor and take its rightful place among the superpowers of the world.

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