Online published on 23 October, 2018.
India and Japan share values of democratic virtue, peaceful coexistence, rule of law, transparency and a common heritage of Hindu mythology and Buddhist thought. In recent years, their relationship has gone beyond economics to enter the sphere of strategic cooperation. There is synergy between the two in the Indo-Pacific region as well and Japan joining as the third partner in the Malabar exercises, along with India and the US, highlights the strong bonding. While the India-Japan-US trilateral has common goals and is strategically significant, it is time for it to move beyond symbolic gestures to more substantive cooperation.
