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New Roadmap for Japan-India ties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Purnendra Jain
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Japan today is showing extraordinary interest in India and nothing reflects this more strongly than Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to New Delhi in August. Moreover, Abe is the third successive Japanese prime minister to make such a visit and, starting this year, India is the only country with which Japan will conduct annual talks at the prime ministerial level.

Abe hewed to his foreign visits schedule and made a week-long trip to Indonesia, India and Malaysia – beginning 19 August despite political uncertainties in Japan and his weakened position as prime minister following the Liberal Democratic Party's dismal performance at the July House of Councillors elections. Recognising strategic competition for energy security, Abe signed a bilateral free trade agreement with Indonesia, the largest supplier of liquefied natural gas to Japan. In return Japan guaranteed Indonesia liberal access to its markets for a range of Indonesian products including farm produce – rice exempted.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , September 2007 , e3
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