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QUAD Foreign Ministers meet held in Tokyo

October 7, 2020

• The foreign ministers of India, Japan, US and Australia held the Quad foreign ministers meet. India was represented by the External Affairs minister S JaiShankar.

JIMEX 2020: India-Japan Bilateral Maritime Exercise

September 26, 2020

• JIMEX, the bilateral Maritime Exercise is to be conducted biennially between India and Japan in the North Arabian Sea between September 26, 2020 and September 28, 2020.

Yoshihide Suga announced as Japan’s new Prime Minister

September 16, 2020

• The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Yoshihide Suga has been elected as Japan’s new Prime Minister. He has been serving as the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the current administration.

India signs MoU with Japan on Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between Armed Forces

September 10, 2020

• India signs MoU with Japan on Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between Armed Forces. This will enable closer cooperation between the Armed Forces of the two countries.

India and Japan signed MoU on cooperation in Textiles

September 3, 2020

• The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Japan on Cooperation in Textile.

India-Japan-Australia to Launch Resilient Supply Chain Initiative

September 2, 2020

• India, Japan and Australia agreed to launch a trilateral Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) in the Indo-Pacific region which will help in building a resilient supply chain with focus on free, transparent trade & investment environment in the region.

Japan commits ODA of Rs 3500 crore to fight COVID-19 in India

September 1, 2020

• In order to fight the COVID-19 crisis, India will receive an Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan of an amount of JPY50 billion (approx. Rs. 3,500 crore) from the government of Japan for the COVID-19 Crisis Emergency Response Support.

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe resigns due to worsening health

August 28, 2020

• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has stepped down from his position due to his worsening health condition. The long-serving Prime Minister of Japan did not name a successor.

Japan grants a loan of $3.1 million to Bangladesh

August 13, 2020

• Japan grant a loan amount of $3.1 million to Bangladesh that will help them to built Jamuna railway bridge in parallel to the existing Bangabandhu Bridge, expansion of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Projects and Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway improvement project among the seven projects.

6th August observed as Hiroshima Day

August 6, 2020

• 6^th of August marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima during World War II as Hiroshima Day or Anti-Nuclear day. The horrific incident took place on August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy”, on the town of Hiroshima in Japan.