The visit by the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to India, in March 2023, during which he engaged with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on global and bilateral issues, focused on cooperation between the G-7 and the G-20. Besides this, Mr. Kishida also unveiled “Japan’s New Plan for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific” and exchanged views about deepening the “Japan-India …
To judge a country’s relationship with India, apply a simple metric. And on that yardstick too, Tokyo would rank as arguably New Delhi’s closest friend in Asia given their shared anxieties about Beijing’s belligerence and the need to maintain stability across the Indo-Pacific. The two countries had substantive bilateral engagements and discussed how they can work together given the uniqueness …
New Delhi: In a major signal to China, Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida Monday said India is an “indispensable partner” for Tokyo as far as the Indo-Pacific strategy is concerned, even as he announced that his government will mobilise funds worth $75 billion to build the infrastructure in this region. “I believe that Japan and India are in an …
Fumio Kishida will walk into Kantei as prime minister on October 4 following a high-voltage political race, marked by murky factional political culture of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. As the longest-serving foreign minister in the post-war era in Shinzo Abe cabinet, and LDP’s former policy research council chief, Kishida has hands-on experience in pursuing Tokyo’s national interest in the …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will hold the first-ever Quadrilateral grouping leaders’ summit on Friday, with issues like a free and open Indo-pacific, climate change and vaccine supply on the agenda. The Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement that the leaders will discuss regional …