Resetting India-Japan Relation in Modi Government

Abstract

As two of the biggest democracies in the most populous and dynamic region in the world, the many values that India-Japan share are crucial to ensuring stability in the Asia Pacific and beyond. In Asia, India has moved from its ‘Act east policy’ particularly with regard to foreign the foundations of a potentially far reaching economic, political and strategic partnership with Japan. PM Modi and Abe have declared that India-Japanese axis of interests and values could redraw the strategic map of Asia, ensuring the freedom of the Sea lanes knitting the India and Pacific oceans together to authoritarian challenges-“The Indo-Japanese strategic partnership: Asia`s response to China`s rise.”