Japan-India Connectivity Cooperation in India’s North East & Neighbourhood

India and Japan share a similar strategic vision for the Indo-Pacific as outlined in Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) and India’s Indo-Pacific Vision amidst the emerging new world order and as the global economic centre of gravity shifts to Asia. Recognising the growing convergence of interests, the two countries upgraded their bilateral relations from ‘Global Partnership’ to ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’ in 2017.