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A Strategic Partnership Between Japan and India?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Vivek Pinto
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The first lines of Robert Browning's poem, ‘The Patriot’ – “It was roses, roses, all the way” – may well characterise the splendid success of prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Japan during December 13-15. It all started with the “breaking of protocol for a late evening arrival at Tokyo International Airport, Haneda, by the Japanese foreign minister Taro Aso”. The next day he had an afternoon audience at the Imperial Palace with the emperor of Japan, Akihito, and empress Michiko, followed by a historic honour – a first for an Indian prime minister – to address the joint session of the Diet, the Japanese parliament. The visit concluded on December 15 with a joint public statement, with the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, on “India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership”.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , e8
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1 A J Philip, ‘Japan's Visit Quest for East: PM’, The Tribune, December 13, 2006.

2 ‘Text of Prime Minister's Policy Speech to the Diet’, The Japan Times, October 3, 2006, p3.

3 John Cherian, ‘A Strategic Stopover’, Frontline, 10, May 7-20, 2005.

4 ‘Joint Statement: Towards India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership’, December 15, 2006, Tokyo, signed by the prime minister of the Republic of India and the prime minister of Japan, p 2.

5 Prime minister's speech to the Diet, December 14, 2006, Tokyo, p 8.

6 Speech by prime minister, Shinzo Abe, August 14, Tokyo, at the launching of India-Japan Friendship Year, 2007.

7 See ‘Highlights of Documents Signed between India and Japan’, The Hindu, December 15, 2005.

8 ‘Report of the India-Japan Joint Study Group’, June 2006.

9 ‘Joint Statement: Towards India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership’, p 4.

10 Ibid, pp 4-5.

11 Ibid, p 4.

12 Prime minister's speech to the Diet, p 4.

13 ‘India's Middle-class Reaps Riches as Economy Booms’, The Daily Yomiuri, December 19, 2006, p 8.

14 Prime minister's remarks, Japan India Business Luncheon Meeting, Tokyo, December 15, 2006, p 2.

15 Vivek Pinto, ‘Making Up for the Lost Decade’, Economic and Political Weekly, June 24, 2006, p2519.

16 ‘The Position of Nuclear Energy in Japan’, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy.

17 Prime minister's speech to the Diet, p 3.

18 Christopher Flavin and Gary Gardner, ‘China, India, and the New World Order’, State of the World 2006, WW Norton, New York, 2006, p11.

19 ‘India's Electricity Reforms’, The Economist, September 24, 2005, quoted in State of the World 2006, p 11.

20 State of the World 2006, p 11.