Friday, December 18, 2015

2015 ending with renewed India-Japan Cooperation and Deals



NEW DELHI – Tokyo and New Delhi agreed to major deals mid-Dec 2015, including the introduction of Japan’s bullet train technology to India and an agreement on nuclear cooperation.
The bilateral accord was reached during talks in New Delhi between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi.
“This enterprise will launch a revolution in Indian railways and speed up India’s journey into the future. It will become an engine of economic transformation in India,” Modi said after the talks, referring to the introduction of Japanese shinkansen technology in building a high-speed railway in India.
“This project befits the start of a new era for (ties between) Japan and India,” Abe said.
The two countries also agreed on a civil nuclear cooperation pact. Sensitive negotiations had continued for five years on exporting Japan’s nuclear power plant technology to India, with one of the sticking points being whether Japan could ensure that its nuclear technology would not be diverted for military use.