About the Book

This book aims to examine the scope and potential of India-Japan cooperation factoring infrastructure connectivity and corridors in Indo-Pacific. The volume examines the bilateral, trilateral and multilateral contours of the growing partnership in the backdrop of a rising China that is rapidly changing the geo-political order of the region. The volume examines the scope of India-Japan relations beyond 2025 and evaluates how their common pledge to have a “partnership for prosperity” is not free from challenges. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the United States bilateral-oriented approach towards Asia, and the struggle to successfully conclude the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is testing the character of India-Japan relations which the volume covers at length.

About the Editor

Dr. Jagannath P. Panda is a Research Fellow and Centre Coordinator for East Asia at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India. He is an expert on China, East Asia and Indo-Pacific. Dr. Panda is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations

1. India-Japan Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: A Primer -Jagannath P. Panda

Part - I: Connectivity, Corridors and Contours: The Inter-Continental Context

2. Framing a Eurasia Link in India-Japan Global Ties -Jagannath P. Panda and Mrittika Guha Sarkar
3. Innovation, Value Chain and Structural Linkages in Asia-Africa Growth Corridor -Srabani Roy Choudhury

Part - II: Bilateral Perceptions and Strategic Significance: Resources and Technology

4. Infrastructure Connectivity and Corridors in Prime Minister Modi’s Japan Policy -K.V. Kesavan
5. Connectivity and Corridors in Shinzo Abe’s Indo-Pacific Foreign Policy: 2025 and Beyond -Ryohei Kasai
6. Technology and Resource Imperatives in India-Japan Relations -A.D. Gnanagurunathan
7. Role of Forums and Institutional Mechanisms in the India-Japan Partnership of Prosperity -Shamshad A. Khan

Part - III: Financing Projects and Policies: The Economic Imperatives

8. The Asian Context: Chinese Economy and India-Japan Ties -Raviprasad Narayanan
9. Prospects of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Initiatives and India-Japan Partnership -Takashi Terada
10. Infrastructure Financing and Institutional Statecraft: Japan’s Role in India’s Modernisation -Titli Basu
11. Infrastructure Investment: EPQI, BRI and the Emerging Asian Contest -Amrita Jash

Part - IV: Infrastructure and Maritime Congruence in Indo-Pacific

12. India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Imperatives for Ensuring ‘Good Order at Sea’ in the Indo-Pacific -Abhay Kumar Singh
13. Chabahar: The Fault-line in India-Japan Infrastructure Cooperation -Kenta Aoki
14 China’s Maritime Policy in the Bay of Bengal: How does it Affect India’s and Japan’s Maritime Interests? -Takuya Shimodaira
15. India and Japan in Bay of Bengal: Strategic Convergence to Maritime Security -Madhuchanda Ghosh

Index

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