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Evaluate the recent changes in Indo – Japan relations.

  • UPSC 2014, 2013
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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In his 2006 book Utsukushii Kuni e (Towards a Beautiful Country), Shinzo Abe wrote that within a decade Japan–India ties might overtake Japan's ties with the United States and China. That did not happen, but since the mid-2000s the relationship has been transformed. Evaluating it means weighing a transformed strategic relationship against an economic one…

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