{"id":35124,"date":"2018-10-31T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35124"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:51:03","slug":"the-arc-to-tokyo-on-india-japan-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-arc-to-tokyo-on-india-japan-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"The arc to Tokyo: on India-Japan ties :\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/the-arc-to-tokyo\/article19694088.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The arc to Tokyo: on India-Japan ties<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s visit to India, part of annual summits between the two countries, has set strategic ties on a fast track.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the latest developments?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ahmedabad \u2013 Mumbai bullet train project, was launched by Mr. Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s decision to partner with Japan for the 508-km, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u20b9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.1 lakh-crore project is as much about politics as it is about infrastructure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan has been keen to export its high-speed train technology along with rolling stock, and India\u2019s move to confirm the Japanese contracts while China wins\u2019 projects along its Belt and Road railway line is significant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has also extended to Japan an offer denied to any other country, which is to assist in infrastructure development in the Northeast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The talk about North Korea as a joint challenge<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Abe considers North Korea as a joint challenge for both India and Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Abe also pointed to China for supporting North Korea\u2019s nuclear and missile programmes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The clause calling for zero tolerance on terrorism referenced China\u2019s veto on the Jaish-e-Mohammad chief being put on the list of UN-designated terrorists.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Both the title of the joint statement, \u201cToward a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific\u201d, and substantive paragraphs on cooperation in the region indicate a much closer alignment between India and Japan in countering China\u2019s influence in the South China Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The coming into force of the India-Japan nuclear deal and more military and maritime exercises will reinforce such efforts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>India \u2013 Japan trade relations<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Japan is India\u2019s largest donor and the third largest provider of FDI, bilateral trade has steadily declined since 2013, and is down to $13.61 billion in 2016-17 from $14.51 billion the year before.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contrast with India-China trade, at $71 billion a year, and Japan-China trade, at $279 billion, is stark.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the decision to finalize four new locations for special Japanese industrial townships may be only one way of addressing the difficulties businessmen face in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arc to Tokyo: on India-Japan ties :\u00a0 Context Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s visit to India, part of annual summits between the two countries, has set strategic ties on a fast track. What are the latest developments? The Ahmedabad \u2013 Mumbai bullet train project, was launched by Mr. Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-arc-to-tokyo-on-india-japan-ties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The arc to Tokyo: on India-Japan ties :\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704751902},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}