INDIA JAPAN RELATIONS | A DEEP CIVILIZATIONAL STORY
Global Affairs Session 63 03 July 2026 INDIA AND JAPAN A long-running relationship India and Japan share a relationship built on Buddhism, Asian civilizational contact, post-war goodwill, economic complementarity and Indo-Pacific strategy. From indirect cultural links to modern technology, infrastructure, defence, supply-chain and energy cooperation, ties have steadily widened, and since 2000 the partnership has become strategic, practical and future-oriented for both nations.