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India and Japan to step up defence cooperation
September 7 , 2017
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- India and Japan stepped up their cooperation in defence opening up multiple new windows that range from training the Indian Navy personnel on anti-submarine warfare to joint counter-terrorism exercise between the two armies in 2018.
- Japan also proposed to dispatch it P1 maritime patrol aircraft along with a warship for the Malabar series of trilateral exercise involving India, US and Japanese navies in 2018.
- Furthermore, Indian Navy has been invited to the mine counter-measure training by the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force.
- These were decided at the two-day India-Japan Annual Defence Ministerial Dialogue in Tokyo.
- This dialogue gains importance because, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the past urged about the creation of an “Arc of Democracy” in the Indian Ocean region, to tackle China's “String of Pearls” strategy. India and Japan had slowly transformed their defence relations, repositioning themselves as military allies in the last few years as China became assertive in the Indian Ocean region.
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