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Satwik-Chirag return as India begin Japan Open campaign

India's leading badminton players will return to action at the BWF Japan Open Super 750, which gets underway on Tuesday at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, with the comeback of men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty being the biggest talking point.

Japan’s Time Bomb~I

In a bizarre move to address the country’s declining population, the Japanese government launched a new initiative to support single women moving out of Tokyo to rural areas to get married and thus fill the gap of a shrinking female population in the countryside.

Fiji, Japan sign standby disaster loan financing agreement

Fiji and Japan signed an exchange of notes on Wednesday for a second stand-by disaster loan financing of around 72.0 million Fijian dollars (around 32.4 million US dollars), which will assist in any future needs for disaster recovery and rehabilitation.