Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 15 (ANI): The Indian Navy acted swiftly in an operation on Saturday to save lots of a critically-ill Japanese nationwide’s life who was on board a ship at Visakhaptnam.
In a submit on X, PRO & Spokesperson, MoD, wrote, ‘Responding swiftly as a #FirstResponder and trusted GlobalSecurityPartner, #IndianNavy launched a Sea King helicopter on #14Feb to evacuate a critically in poor health Japanese sailor from a #JMSDF ship 200 km from #Visakhapatnam. The affected person was safely airlifted to @IN_Dega and shifted to Naval Hospital Kalyani for medical support. The #MEDEVAC operation displays sturdy worldwide Maritime cooperation between India and Japan.’
India and Japan share a ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’.
Friendship between the 2 nations has a protracted historical past rooted in religious affinity and powerful cultural and civilizational ties.
The Shichifukujin or the seven fortunate Gods of Japan have their roots in Hindu traditions. An early documented direct contact with Japan was with the Todaiji Temple in Nara, the place the consecration or eye-opening of the towering statue of Lord Buddha was carried out by an Indian monk Bodhisena in 752 AD.
In up to date instances, distinguished Indians related to Japan had been Swami Vivekananda, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, entrepreneur JRD Tata, freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Rash Behari Bose and Justice Radha Binod Pal.
The sole dissenting voice of Justice Radha Binod Pal on the War Crimes Tribunal struck a deep chord among the many Japanese public, that continues to reverberate to today.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru donated an Indian elephant to the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo in 1949 which was significantly appreciated by the Japanese folks. The Japan-India Association arrange in 1903 is the oldest worldwide friendship physique in Japan.
After World War-II, India didn’t attend the San Francisco Conference however determined to conclude a separate Peace Treaty with Japan on 28 April 1952, marking the start of diplomatic relations.
Since then, the relations have matured through the years to cowl a variety of areas of cooperation together with political, protection and safety, financial, science and expertise, schooling, cultural and folks to folks trade.
There is rising strategic convergence between the 2 nations. There is synergy between India’s Act-East Policy, Indo-Pacific imaginative and prescient based mostly on the precept of SAGAR, and Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) on one hand, and Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision on the opposite.
Japan has agreed to steer cooperation on the Connectivity pillar of IPOI. Japan has additionally joined India led initiatives similar to International Solar Alliance (ISA), Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT). India and Japan are additionally 1cooperating underneath Quad framework and India-Japan-Australia Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI). (ANI)