As geopolitical tensions rise, Delhi and Tokyo are positioning themselves as trusted strategic partners, in an increasingly uncertain world

The optics were carefully choreographed — a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan, a santoor session recalling Takaichi’s days as a college drummer, and Modi’s warm invocation of her as “meri chhoti behen.” But beneath the pageantry lay a substantive recalibration. The two prime ministers stressed the strategic salience of the India-Japan partnership in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment and agreed to advance cooperation in three priority areas: economic security, energy resilience and technology.

That framing is telling. This is no longer a relationship built primarily on Japanese aid and infrastructure financing, the template of the past two decades. Both........

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