Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in Indo-Pacific and Beyond 2025: Corridors, Connectivity and Contours

Jagannath P. Panda

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 without overlooking India’s interest, are testing the character of India-Japan relations which the volume covers at length.

Jagannath P. Panda 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 xiii

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

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