{"id":49628,"date":"2025-07-29T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=49628"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:33:42","slug":"india-japan-officials-discussed-key-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/29-07-2025\/india-japan-officials-discussed-key-projects","title":{"rendered":"India-Japan Officials Discussed Key Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS2\/IR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met the Japanese Minister to discuss strengthening bilateral ties and key projects, including the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Shinkansen Bullet Train.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Historical\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/24-02-2025\/india-japan-economy-and-investment-forum#:~:text=Trade%20and%20Investment%3A%20Japan%20is,trade%20gap%20was%20%2412.55%20billion.\">India and Japan<\/a> share a deep-rooted Special Strategic and Global Partnership, founded on spiritual, cultural, and civilizational ties.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Historical connections include the Indian monk<strong> Bodhisena\u2019s role<\/strong> in consecrating the Buddha statue at <strong>Japan\u2019s Todaiji Temple in 752 AD <\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prominent Indians linked to Japan include Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, JRD Tata, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Rash Behari Bose, and Justice Radha Binod Pal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Symbolic gestures such as Prime Minister Nehru\u2019s elephant donation to Tokyo\u2019s Ueno Zoo in 1949 reflect enduring friendship.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Defense Cooperation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/24-02-2025\/india-japan-economy-and-investment-forum#:~:text=Trade%20and%20Investment%3A%20Japan%20is,trade%20gap%20was%20%2412.55%20billion.\">India-Japan<\/a> Defense and Security partnership forms an integral pillar of bilateral ties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India-Japan defense exchanges<\/strong> have gained strength in recent years due to growing convergence on strategic matters and its significance is growing from the common outlook on issues of peace, security and stability of the Indo-Pacific Region.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <strong>Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation (JDSC) <\/strong>between India and Japan was signed in 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>JIMEX<\/strong> is a bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Economic and Commercial relations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (CEPA) Agreement came into effect from 1 August 2011.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Agreement covers not only trade in goods but also services, movement of natural persons, investments, intellectual property rights, custom procedures and other trade related issues.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japan\u02bcs bilateral trade with India totaled US$ 22.85 billion during FY 2023-24.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exports from Japan to India during this period were US$ 17.69 billion and imports were US$ 5.15 billion.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Today, India ranks 18th in Japan\u02bcs total trade with 1.4% share while Japan ranks 17th in India\u02bcs total trade with 2.1% share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India\u02bcs primary exports<\/strong> to Japan are Organic Chemicals, Vehicles (Other than railways &amp; trams), Nuclear Reactor, Aluminium and Articles thereof, Fish &amp; other aquatic invertebrates.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India\u02bcs primary imports<\/strong> from Japan are Nuclear Reactors, Copper and Articles thereof, Electrical Machinery and Equipment, Inorganic Chemicals and Iron and Steel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cooperation in other areas\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Trade Ministers of India, Japan and Australia formally launched the Supply Chain Resilience initiative in a Trilateral Ministerial Meeting in April 2021.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India-Japan Act East Forum <\/strong>was\u00a0 established in December 2017 and it\u00a0 aims to provide a platform for India-Japan collaboration under the rubric of India\u02bcs \u201cAct East Policy\u201d and Japan\u02bcs \u201cVision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It identifies specific projects for economic modernization of India\u02bcs North-East region such as those pertaining to connectivity, developmental infrastructure, industrial linkages as well as people-to-people contacts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0Agreement on Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy was signed during the visit of PM Modi to Japan in November 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Latest Developments\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Japan plans to give India two advanced <strong>E-10 Shinkansen trains.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail<\/strong> project is now slated for completion by December 2029, delayed from its original 2022 target.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both sides addressed supply chain challenges caused by China\u2019s export restrictions on critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source :TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met the Japanese Minister to discuss strengthening bilateral ties and key projects, including the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Shinkansen Bullet Train.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Historical\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India and Japan share a deep-rooted Special Strategic and Global Partnership, founded on spiritual, cultural, and civilizational ties.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Historical connections include the Indian monk Bodhisena\u2019s role in consecrating the Buddha statue at Japan\u2019s Todaiji Temple in 752 AD .<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Prominent Indians linked to Japan include Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, JRD Tata, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Rash Behari Bose, and Justice Radha Binod Pal.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Symbolic gestures such as Prime Minister Nehru\u2019s elephant donation to Tokyo\u2019s Ueno Zoo in 1949 reflect enduring friendship.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/29-07-2025\/india-japan-officials-discussed-key-projects\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49637,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49628\/revisions\/49637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}