{"id":51988,"date":"2026-07-02T17:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/51988\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:01:21","slug":"japan-and-india-strengthen-defense-and-economic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/51988\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and India strengthen defense and economic cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Japan and India announced a series of agreements to deepen cooperation in defense, economic and maritime security following talks Thursday between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> and Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi. <\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking after the meeting in New Delhi, Modi said India and Japan will collaborate on naval radio antenna systems, and adopted a joint road map on economic security. He said the leaders also agreed to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence, shipbuilding, biogas, semiconductors and critical technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia and Japan view economic security as a shared security interest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Japan is among India\u2019s largest foreign investors and has backed major infrastructure projects, including the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail line. About 1,400 Japanese companies operate in India, nearly half of them in manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Two-way trade reached $27.5 billion in India\u2019s 2025-26 fiscal year, while Japanese investment totaled $3.2 billion between April and December 2025, according to Indian government data.<\/p>\n

Takaichi was in New Delhi on a three-day visit for the 16th annual India-Japan summit. Both countries seek to strengthen their partnership in the Indo-Pacific following Modi\u2019s trip to Tokyo last year, when Japan pledged to more than double its investment in India<\/a> to more than $61 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n

India and Japan, along with the United States and Australia, are members of the Quad, a grouping that promotes cooperation on regional security, maritime issues and defense to counter China\u2019s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n

Takaichi said New Delhi and Tokyo shared a commitment to Japan\u2019s initiative of free and open Indo-Pacific based on freedom of navigation and respect for international law. \u201cExpansion of maritime security cooperation is especially important for regional peace and stability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Asked about the initiative, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Thursday that some countries promoted \u201cfreedom and openness\u201d while pursuing \u201cconfrontation and division.\u201d He said such an approach ran counter to the region\u2019s desire for peace, development and cooperation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsia-Pacific needs stability, not turmoil; focus on cooperation, not division,\u201d Guo said at a regular press briefing in Beijing. <\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing, China contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Japan and India announced a series of agreements to deepen cooperation in defense, economic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,217,1186,290,34950,17003,8,1505,17,8804,8803,358,30177,907,213],"class_list":["post-51988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-asia-pacific","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-india","tag-india-government","tag-information-technology","tag-japan","tag-japan-government","tag-japanese","tag-narendra-modi","tag-new-delhi","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-south-asia","tag-technology","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}