India Japan: Towards Harnessing Potentials of Partnership

India-Japan relationship, a blend of great expectations and experiences, was typified by their inability to surmount the inapt divergence stemmed from the Cold War syndrome. The nostalgia for mutually beneficial bilateral relations paved the way for promoting each other’s progress and prosperity and building an arc of advantage and prosperity across the Asian continent. With the transformation of the low-key relationship into a major Strategic and Global Partnership, the Indo-Japan cooperation assumes significance for maintaining Asian power equilibrium in the context of Asian Century gaining prominence as well as thereby ensuring global peace and prosperity. Japan’s focused interest in partnership with India is evidenced from Japan’s bilateral assistance, steady growth in trade and investment flows, and transfer of technical know-how to India. The burgeoning India-Japan partnership with far-reaching consequences could be well understood from a wide gamut of topics deliberated in this compendium.