New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): The Japan Self-Defence Forces Day 2023 was held by the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The ceremony conferred Admiral Karambir Singh (Retd), the twenty fourth Chief of the Naval Staff with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star for his contribution to strengthening the connection between India and Japan in nationwide defence.
Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday morning mentioned that India and Japan cherish a Special Strategic and Global Partnership rooted in historical historic ties.
“Reached Tokyo this morning. Look forward to my engagements including interaction with the Indian community. India and Japan cherish a Special Strategic and Global Partnership rooted in ancient historical ties and shared values,” MoS Muraleedharan wrote on ‘X’.
Notably, India and Japan share a “Special Strategic and Global Partnership” protecting a variety of areas of cooperation.
The friendship between the 2 international locations has an extended historical past rooted in non secular affinity and powerful cultural and civilizational ties.
There is rising strategic convergence between the 2 international locations. 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.
India-Japan relations have been elevated to ‘Global Partnership’ in 2000, ‘Strategic and Global Partnership’ in 2006, and ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’ in 2014.
Moreover, common annual summits have been held between India and Japan since, in keeping with the assertion. (ANI)