Japanese Premier Sanae Takaichi will visit India next month as part of the India-Japan Summit. She’ll be visiting Assam along with PM Modi and 50 industrialists from Japan.
This will be Takaichi’s first visit to India since her becoming PM. Takaichi and PM Modi met last year on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa.
Suzuki Motor President Toshihiro Suzuki will be among the business leaders accompanying Takaichi. Industrialists from trading house Itochu and Toyota Motor’s trading arm, Toyota Tsusho, will also be part of the group visiting Assam.
Takaichi is recognized as a hardliner on national security and foreign affairs, prioritizing the strengthening of Japan’s defense. Her administration called out China as Japan’s biggest threat, and analysts have noted that, with the United States withdrawing under President Donald Trump, a robust India-Japan alliance is essential to countering Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
Japan has been one of India’s key partners since India’s independence and is perhaps the only country who has investments in the sensitive region of Northeast India.
The Modi government is looking to transform Assam into a manufacturing hub, to tap into the untapped potential of the Northeast, many infrastructural and industrial projects have been announced in the last few years.
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