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INDIA-JAPAN RELATIONS

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in Tokyo on Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 3, 2025
Can India and Japan deliver on their energy agenda?
As geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific shifts, energy has become central to how India and Japan define their partnership.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meet in Sendai on Saturday during a trip in which they toured a chip factory belonging to Tokyo Electron.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2025
Indian PM Modi tours Miyagi chip plant with Ishiba
¡°We hope to work together to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain and enhance economic security,¡± Ishiba told reporters after the visit.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a joint news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025
At Tokyo summit, India and Japan outline path forward for the coming decade
The leaders of the two countries outlined multiple areas of cooperation, including tech, the environment and health.
A man reads The Times of India newspaper in Delhi on Wednesday. Donald Trump¡¯s tariffs on India expose New Delhi¡¯s overreliance on U.S. exports but also create an opening for India to pivot toward Asia.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2025
Trump¡¯s tariffs should spur Indo-Japan convergence
Historically, India has never been a treaty ally of the U.S., but it has maintained a strong relationship with America.
Suzuki Motor plans to invest more than 700 billion rupees ($8 billion) in India, highlighting the country's growing strategic importance as the Japanese automaker expands into electric vehicle production.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 27, 2025
Suzuki Motor to invest $8 billion in India amid EV push
The South Asian nation is the company¡¯s largest market by revenue and is now also evolving as a key export hub for its EV business.
Traffic along a highway in New Delhi. India, the world's third largest emitter of carbon dioxide, will be able to access Japanese decarbonization technologies at low cost under a joint crediting mechanism.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 25, 2025
Japan and India to use joint crediting mechanism in emission-cutting plan
The yet-to-be-announced plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in India using Japanese technologies will allow Japan to count part of the reductions as its own.
Indian Ambassador to Japan Sibi George speaks during an interview on Aug. 1 in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2025
Indian ambassador to Japan underscores Quad ties
Japan and India have designated 2025 as an exchange year in the fields of science and technology and innovation.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday. Ishiba plans to launch a new economic initiative to strengthen ties with India, the Middle East and Africa at an event near Tokyo next week.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 14, 2025
Ishiba to launch new regional economic initiative
The initiative is aimed at helping Japanese companies expand operations in India, the Middle East and Africa.
A rendering of East Japan Railway's next-generation E10 series of Shinkansen bullet train
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 14, 2025
India wants more Japan involvement in its high-speed rail project
India expects Japan to submit bids for routes other than the one under construction in western India that is set to utilize the Shinkansen bullet train technology,
The Maruti Suzuki India e-Vitara electric vehicle unveiled during the Bharat Mobility Global Expo in New Delhi in January
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2025
Suzuki¡¯s India unit doubles down on SUVs as small cars slide
The nation¡¯s top carmaker is scrambling to counter slowing demand for its bread-and-butter small cars.
Mizuho Bank is said to have appointed Devendra Sharma as co-head of corporate banking in India with the aim of strengthening its presence in the country.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2025
Mizuho said to hire Mashreqbank¡¯s corporate banking head in India
Mizuho Bank is betting big in India, with a focus on corporate and investment banking, as well as retail loans.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Washington in January.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 30, 2025
As China advances and the U.S. retreats, Japan-India ties grow stronger
Located on two ends of the Indo-Pacific region, India and Japan anchor a stable counterweight to China and a mercurial Trump.
A technician works on the assembly line at a solar panel manufacturing hub on the outskirts of New Delhi last October.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Jul 27, 2025
Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar
As the Trump administration shifts back to gas and coal, solar power stakeholders in Japan and India are seeking new ways to collaborate.
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2025
Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India
This marks the first regular dispatch of assistant language teachers from India under a government initiative to promote exchanges at the regional level.
Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian independence movement with an unshakable faith in nonviolence that arguably dovetailed with Zen philosophy in some respects.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Jul 19, 2025
Gandhi¡¯s philosophy of nonviolence ¡ª and Zen?
The Indian nationalist¡¯s beliefs hewed close to certain aspects of Zen thought, particularly his fearlessness in the face of death.
The Maruti Suzuki India e-Vitara during the Bharat Mobility Global Expo in New Delhi in January
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 4, 2025
Suzuki is becoming a top Japan importer with made-in-India cars
Suzuki beat out Mercedes-Benz to become Â鶹´«Ã½ top car importer in June, thanks to the Jimny Nomad and another popular small SUV assembled in India.
An event to promote Japan-India cooperation on supply chains for minerals was held at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2025
New Delhi event highlights Â鶹´«Ã½ bid to deepen India ties on critical minerals
The event brought together a total of some 70 companies from both countries, including members of the Battery Association for Supply Chain, a Japanese industry group.
Orix shares gained as much as 3.6% in Tokyo on Monday, their biggest intraday gain since April 10.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2025
Orix to sell $1.3 billion stake in Greenko to founders
Tokyo-based Orix agreed to transfer a 17.5% holding in Greenko, out of its total ownership of 20%, to AM Green Power.
Trishit Banerjee moved to Japan in 2015, embarking on an academic and personal journey that taught him lessons about the collective and the individual.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jun 23, 2025
A singular ensemble: Indian food, science and Fukushima
After moving to Sendai for college, an Indian student began thinking about the dynamic between the individual and the ensemble ¡ª in food, science and society.
A statue of Mohandas Gandhi in Tetsugakudo Park, Tokyo. The Indian nationalist saw lessons for humanity in the trajectory of modern Japan and the violence wrought by ¡ª and perpetrated upon ¡ª the nation.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Jun 21, 2025
Gandhi and Japan: Turning away from ¡®brute force¡¯ and toward love
¡°I did not move a muscle when I first heard that an atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima.¡±
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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