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TOKYO: The much-vaunted nuclear deal remained elusive, with the leaders of India and Japan reiterating their resolve to conclude it at the earliest, but officials said there was “significant progress” …
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In a series of defining steps that will pitchfork India-Japan economic relations into a higher trajectory, Asia’s second and third largest economies will jointly work towards doubling Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) and the number of Japanese companies in India within the next five years.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who held wide-ranging talks in Tokyo on September 1, announced the formation of India–Japan Investment Promotion Partnership to take expanding bilateral trade relationship to the next level.
Under this investment partnership, which has the potential to be a game-changer in India’s quest for world-class infrastructure, Japan will give around 3.5 trillion yen ($33 billion) of public & private investments, including Overseas Development Assistance, to India in a five year period.
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Pitching for greater Japanese investment and clean energy tie-ups, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined his commitment to second-generation economic reforms and unveiled a decision to set up a …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on his way to Japan this weekend, making this the second major summit level visit he is undertaking since he took over in May. …
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A civil nuclear agreement is one of the key outcomes New Delhi is pushing for in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan that starts on August 30. Recently, in …
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Varanasi, the holy Hindu city which Modi represents in the Indian parliament, will be developed as a ‘smart city’, using the experiences of Kyoto. Kyoto, home to over 2000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, is renowned for its ability to merge the modern with the ancient, and is symbolic of the development of Japan – where cutting edge technology is used to preserve their historic legacy. The Kyoto-Varanasi pact has set the stage for rekindling civilizational ties between India and Japan, which will deepen the spiritual foundation for the burgeoning multi-pronged modern-day partnership.
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Hoping that the right combination of carrots and sticks does the trick, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his disappointment over Islamabad making a spectacle of New Delhi’s peace …
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India’s Prime Minster Narendra Modi has touched down in Kyoto to begin an event-packed five-day visit to Tokyo that is poised to pitch India-Japan relations into a higher trajectory. Warm …
Read MoreMetro, Bullet Trains, Buddhism, Business, Technology and Innovation. It’s a potent brew, which is made all the more heady by the common strategic intent to co-create an Asian renaissance. It …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s August 30-September 3 visit to Japan is laden with great expectations and hopes of substantive outcomes, which can transform the geopolitical dynamics of Asia. In this conversation with www.indiawrites.org, Sanjaya Baru, a well-known commentator on foreign affairs and Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, speaks about the unique character of India-Japan relations, Japan’s starring role in the development of India and his expectations from the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Japan. Baru, the author of The Accidental Prime Minister and Director of Geo-economics and Strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, predicts a robust future of India-Japan relations and underlines that Japan is and will be India’s all-weather friend in days to come.
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