Modi one of my most dependable friends, PM Shinzo Abe vows to be a "friend of India for life"

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

He said that he spoke of the "confluence of the two seas" in his speech which would lead to the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Sunday said he will be a "friend of India for life" as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi began two days of summit talks to further deepen the Japan-India strategic partnership.

In a message published in Indian newspapers on the day Abe hosted Modi at his holiday home in the picturesque Yamanashi prefecture, west of Tokyo, he recalled that the first Japanese prime minister to visit India was his grandfather Nobusuke Kishi in 1957.

"At the time when Japan was not so wealthy, Prime Minister (Jawaharlal) Nehru introduced Prime Minister Kishi in front of thousands of people as the Japanese Prime Minister whom he respects," Abe noted.

Following Prime Minister Kishi's visit to India in 1957, yen loans to the country began in 1958. Abe, who was elected prime minister for the first time in 2006, comes from a politically prominent family.

"Engraving the history in my heart, I have devoted myself to nurturing this friendship with India," Abe said in his article.

He recalled that when he visited India in 2007, he was honoured to deliver a speech in the Parliament of India, the largest democratic country in the world.

He said that he spoke of the "confluence of the two seas" in his speech which would lead to the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific.

When he visited Ahmedabad, Prime Minister Modi's home state, Gujarat, in September last year, the Japanese premier said he received an "overwhelmingly warm welcome" by the people of India.

"Immersed in the strong impression and thinking of my grandfather's visit to India, I swore that I would remain a friend of India for life," the 64-year-old leader of the Liberal Democratic Party said in the letter.

Prime Minister Modi, who arrived in Tokyo Saturday evening to attend the 13th India-Japan annual summit, has said that his meeting with Abe will add new vigour to the strong friendship between the two countries.

The two-day summit beginning Sunday will seek to review the progress in ties and deepen strategic dimension of the bilateral relationship.

On his part, Prime Minister Abe said the annual mutual visits by the leaders of Japan and India are an "active driving force" for the advancement of Japan-India bilateral relations.

"I am convinced that Prime Minister Modi's visit to Japan this time will also be fruitful as our previous meetings," he said.

At the same time, Abe hoped that Prime Minister Modi will enjoy the beautiful autumn in Japan, including the snow-capped Mout Fuji and autumn-tinted leaves, besides experiencing Japanese cutting-edge technology.

Describing Prime Minister Modi as "one of my most dependable and valuable friends," Abe said he would be greatly pleased if his guest is impressed the same way as he was in Ahmedabad



https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...nd-of-india-for-life/articleshow/66401459.cms

 

[YeBeWarned]

A Friend that can make Tea for you for the rest of your life ..me and my bestie too spend a lot of time on Chai ka dhabba

 

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

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[Rollno21]

A Friend that can make Tea for you for the rest of your life ..me and my bestie too spend a lot of time on Chai ka dhabba

At least the Japanese PM won't think.ek bar hi Kya boldiya yeh tho bailout package mangthay pichay he padgaya.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Long live Indo-Japan friendship.

 

[Chakar The Great]

Hahaha sure. Friend for life. why do you guys do such thing?? Chest thumping and all that shit.What happened to India Japan bullet train?

Rethink Indian bullet train project Source: Japan times

Is the Indo-Japan rail project a boondoggle?


Friends for life , sure as Modi was friend with French PM ( Rafale deal). Fooling indian public again.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Hahaha sure. Friend for life. why do you guys do such thing?? Chest thumping and all that shit.What happened to India Japan bullet train?

Rethink Indian bullet train project Source: Japan times

Is the Indo-Japan rail project a boondoggle?


Friends for life , sure as Modi was friend with French PM ( Rafale deal). Fooling indian public again.

India & Japan are working on the logistics pact on the lines of Indo-US agreement. Japan will get access to Indian bases and India would get access to Japanese bases.


One More Tryst for Modi and Abe: What to Expect During the Latest India-Japan Summit
India and Japan continue their strategic convergence.

By Harsh V. Pant
October 28, 2018


Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be heading off to Japan on October 28 for the latest annual summit meet with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe. This will be Modi’s third visit to Japan and the 13th annual summit between the two nations. Modi and Abe have developed a personal chemistry over the last five years and there is a close bond between the two. During the 2017 summit, Modi had hosted Abe in Ahmedabad with great fanfare, replete with a road-show, visits to historical sites and a traditional Gujarati dinner. Taking this tradition forward, Abe is also planning to give Modi a warm welcome, including a private dinner at his at his holiday home in Yamanashi prefecture.

The highlight of the visit is likely to be the commencement of talks on a military logistics pact, the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement, between the two nations that will give them access to each other’s bases. Underscoring close strategic cooperation between the two major naval powers in the Indo-Pacific, this pact would allow Japanese navy get access to fuel and servicing at major Indian naval bases including the Andaman and Nicobar islands, even as Indian ships would be able to use Japanese facilities for maintenance. India has signed such pacts with other like-minded powers like the United States and France and it is important to expand the Indian footprint in the wider Indo-Pacific. Indo-Japanese military cooperation has been expanding rapidly with the two nations holding bilateral maritime exercises and the first-ever joint army exercises next month. The Malabar exercises involving the United States Navy continue to evolve into more ambitious undertaking with each passing year. Defense ties between India and Japan have grown considerably though New Delhi still has concerns about Japanese bureaucracy dragging its feet in sharing defence equipment and technology despite political push from Abe.

Connectivity is another areas which is getting a lot of focus in India-Japan relations. As China’s Belt and Road Initiative reshapes Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, other regional powers like India and Japan are also entering the fray. The Asia-Africa Growth Corridor being spearheaded by India and Japan is one such example. But the two nations are looking beyond this and remain committed to pursue joint connectivity and infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific area including in India’s north-eastern and eastern neighborhood. Japan is investing significantly in upgrading infrastructure in the Northeast which will also link India more substantively to Southeast Asia. Modi and Abe are likely to unveil “a concrete infrastructure project implemented together” in South Asia.

One of the more interesting aspects of this summit’s engagement will be New Delhi’s attempt synergize Modi’s Ayushman Bharat scheme and the Japanese healthcare program, Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative. Modi has been very ambitious with this healthcare scheme and will be keen to get Japan’s support to seeing the project through to its logical conclusion.

Tectonic plates of global geopolitics are shifting rapidly and both India and Japan are trying to cope up. Abe was in China this week for a landmark visit, the first by a Japanese Prime Minister in seven years. The two nations signed a number of agreements, including reviving a currency-swap deal dropped in 2013 and more than 500 business pacts even as they called for an early conclusion to a trade pact involving 16 Asian countries. The foreign policy of the Trump administration is playing a big role in this recalibration by the two Asian nations as Japan is concerned about the potential U.S. withdrawal from the region and China is grappling with the consequences of an escalating trade war with the United States. India too has tried to reach out to China in recent months with Modi’s informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan.

The strength of Indo-Japan ties today can gauged by the fact that neither New Delhi nor Tokyo are concerned about these recent moves. Indo-Japanese relationship has evolved to a point that the long term convergence between the two is taken as a given. As Japan’s ambassador to India, Kenji Hiramatsu has suggested “a strong India is in Japan’s best interest and for that, we must provide even more support.”

It is rare to have a strategic convergence of this order between any two nations and Modi and Abe have built on this convergence by using their personal equation. As the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape undergoes a churn, it is incumbent on the two nations to keep working together as the two primary democratic actors in the region. Apart from shaping the regional balance of power, they will have to do their bit for shaping the normative and institutional architecture of the region. That’s a responsibility that will increasingly come to these two powers and they should not be found wanting.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/one...-expect-during-the-latest-india-japan-summit/

 

[Chakar The Great]

India & Japan are working on the logistics pact on the lines of Indo-US agreement. Japan will get access to Indian bases and India would get access to Japanese bases.


One More Tryst for Modi and Abe: What to Expect During the Latest India-Japan Summit
India and Japan continue their strategic convergence.

By Harsh V. Pant
October 28, 2018


Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be heading off to Japan on October 28 for the latest annual summit meet with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe. This will be Modi’s third visit to Japan and the 13th annual summit between the two nations. Modi and Abe have developed a personal chemistry over the last five years and there is a close bond between the two. During the 2017 summit, Modi had hosted Abe in Ahmedabad with great fanfare, replete with a road-show, visits to historical sites and a traditional Gujarati dinner. Taking this tradition forward, Abe is also planning to give Modi a warm welcome, including a private dinner at his at his holiday home in Yamanashi prefecture.

The highlight of the visit is likely to be the commencement of talks on a military logistics pact, the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement, between the two nations that will give them access to each other’s bases. Underscoring close strategic cooperation between the two major naval powers in the Indo-Pacific, this pact would allow Japanese navy get access to fuel and servicing at major Indian naval bases including the Andaman and Nicobar islands, even as Indian ships would be able to use Japanese facilities for maintenance. India has signed such pacts with other like-minded powers like the United States and France and it is important to expand the Indian footprint in the wider Indo-Pacific. Indo-Japanese military cooperation has been expanding rapidly with the two nations holding bilateral maritime exercises and the first-ever joint army exercises next month. The Malabar exercises involving the United States Navy continue to evolve into more ambitious undertaking with each passing year. Defense ties between India and Japan have grown considerably though New Delhi still has concerns about Japanese bureaucracy dragging its feet in sharing defence equipment and technology despite political push from Abe.

Connectivity is another areas which is getting a lot of focus in India-Japan relations. As China’s Belt and Road Initiative reshapes Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, other regional powers like India and Japan are also entering the fray. The Asia-Africa Growth Corridor being spearheaded by India and Japan is one such example. But the two nations are looking beyond this and remain committed to pursue joint connectivity and infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific area including in India’s north-eastern and eastern neighborhood. Japan is investing significantly in upgrading infrastructure in the Northeast which will also link India more substantively to Southeast Asia. Modi and Abe are likely to unveil “a concrete infrastructure project implemented together” in South Asia.

One of the more interesting aspects of this summit’s engagement will be New Delhi’s attempt synergize Modi’s Ayushman Bharat scheme and the Japanese healthcare program, Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative. Modi has been very ambitious with this healthcare scheme and will be keen to get Japan’s support to seeing the project through to its logical conclusion.

Tectonic plates of global geopolitics are shifting rapidly and both India and Japan are trying to cope up. Abe was in China this week for a landmark visit, the first by a Japanese Prime Minister in seven years. The two nations signed a number of agreements, including reviving a currency-swap deal dropped in 2013 and more than 500 business pacts even as they called for an early conclusion to a trade pact involving 16 Asian countries. The foreign policy of the Trump administration is playing a big role in this recalibration by the two Asian nations as Japan is concerned about the potential U.S. withdrawal from the region and China is grappling with the consequences of an escalating trade war with the United States. India too has tried to reach out to China in recent months with Modi’s informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan.

The strength of Indo-Japan ties today can gauged by the fact that neither New Delhi nor Tokyo are concerned about these recent moves. Indo-Japanese relationship has evolved to a point that the long term convergence between the two is taken as a given. As Japan’s ambassador to India, Kenji Hiramatsu has suggested “a strong India is in Japan’s best interest and for that, we must provide even more support.”

It is rare to have a strategic convergence of this order between any two nations and Modi and Abe have built on this convergence by using their personal equation. As the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape undergoes a churn, it is incumbent on the two nations to keep working together as the two primary democratic actors in the region. Apart from shaping the regional balance of power, they will have to do their bit for shaping the normative and institutional architecture of the region. That’s a responsibility that will increasingly come to these two powers and they should not be found wanting.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/one...-expect-during-the-latest-india-japan-summit/

I have had enough of expectations and planning, tell me whats on the ground? Nothing!!

 

[Tom M]

Hahaha sure. Friend for life. why do you guys do such thing?? Chest thumping and all that shit.What happened to India Japan bullet train?

Rethink Indian bullet train project Source: Japan times

Is the Indo-Japan rail project a boondoggle?


Friends for life , sure as Modi was friend with French PM ( Rafale deal). Fooling indian public again.

Indeed foolish Indian public. But neither MODI nor any other ex-P.M of India took us for a ride, amassed billions and laundered it to overseas accounts. Yet Indian's are not smart unlike you guys. LOL

 

[Aryan0395]

Hahaha sure. Friend for life. why do you guys do such thing?? Chest thumping and all that shit.What happened to India Japan bullet train?

Rethink Indian bullet train project Source: Japan times

Is the Indo-Japan rail project a boondoggle?


Friends for life , sure as Modi was friend with French PM ( Rafale deal). Fooling indian public again.

Sure. Call writings appearing in every report of IMF, world bank and articles in all the major publications in the world on Pak + China + CPEC + Loans vendetta, false, jealousy and motivated but a one off article (half of which calls for stricter term of loans cause 0.1% is too generous) and other link thats just a reply to the editor from reader for his article proof that Bullet train project is going to fail!!!
There's not enough logic in the world...