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Indian PM Narendra Modi and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in front of an E5 series Shinkansen bullet train. Photo: Bloomberg

Geopolitics

Shinkansen: India and Japan’s silver bullet for a rising China

16 Sep 2017 - 12:03pm 65

Worshipped like a god in India, Rajinikanth scored an unlikely breakthrough with ‘Muthu’ – which filled Tokyo cinemas, ran for 23 weeks and grossed US$1.6m

Society

Rajinikanth: The Tamil star who has a cult following in Japan

30 Jul 2017 - 7:58pm 3

Japanese company Inax’s flagship toilet ‘Regio’ at the Shanghai expo. Photo: AFP

Society

Olympic toilets: Japan has the gold standard

3 Jun 2017 - 12:02pm 1

Society is still not encouraging females to enter the space race, but Naoko Yamazaki helped to shatter a stratospheric glass ceiling

Society

Girls, don’t wish upon a star – just go there

12 Mar 2017 - 1:01pm

Indian commuters on a polluted road in the Anand Vihar district of New Delhi. Photo: AFP

Society

Delhi, where China’s pollution seems like nothing

10 Nov 2017 - 10:31pm 1

These two eclectic democracies share more in common than India and China, yet they are rarely hyphenated.

Insight & Opinion

India and Indonesia are two of a kind

25 Jul 2017 - 8:50am 1