# Business

Sitharaman leaves for Japan to take part in G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has embarked on an official two-day visit to Japan’s Niigata where she will participate in the “Dialogue with partner countries” at the G7 Finance Ministers/Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting on May 12.

IANS | New Delhi | May 11, 2023 8:38 am

Sitharaman leaves for Japan to take part in G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has embarked on an official two-day visit to Japan’s Niigata where she will participate in the “Dialogue with partner countries” at the G7 Finance Ministers/Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting on May 12.

During her visit, Sitharaman will also have multilateral and bilateral engagements with her counterparts, besides a roundtable meeting with business leaders and investors, official sources said.

# India

India, Japan must enhance quality of economic cooperation: Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said India and Japan must consider ways to enhance the quality of their economic cooperation in a world under flux.

# World

Boat collision kills three off Japan’s Yamaguchi

A collision between two boats off the coast of Kudamatsu in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture left three people aboard a pleasure boat dead.

# World

Heightened alert issued as heavy rain hits Japan’s Okinawa

Japan's weather agency on Sunday urged Okinawa residents to be on high alert for mudslides and other disasters as torrential rains are drenching the country's southernmost prefecture.