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Nepal begins administering second doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine dose for nearly 1.4 million elderly people following a months-long delay due to India suspending exports of vaccines due to a substantial increase in the number of cases there. The vaccines were donated by Japan and Bhutan.
2021-08-9

Japan reports its first five cases of the "double mutant" Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India.
2021-04-22

Japan and India sign an agreement on high-speed rail, defence technology and a memorandum of understanding on civil nuclear cooperation.
2015-12-12

India has become the world's third-largest economy in purchasing power parity after the United States and China, moving ahead of Japan according to World Bank report. The last survey in 2005 had placed India in 10th place.
2014-04-30

Cyclone Thane makes landfall near the southern Union Territory of Puducherry on India's southern coast. [http:--old.news.yahoo.com-s-nm-20111230-wl_nm-us_india_cyclone_thane (Reuters via Yahoo)]date=August 2019
2011-12-30

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan with a tsunami warning issued and then retracted.
2011-08-19

Japan's Sendai Airport partially reopens for the first time since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-04-13

Scientists discover that the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae), a Japanese salmon subspecies which scientists had thought had gone extinct in 1940, has still a living population in 2010. [http:--www.nbc29.com-Global-story.asp?S=13674873 (Associated Press)]date=August 2019
2010-12-15

India and China help boost Asian shares outside Japan by 1.7%.
2010-11-1