New Delhi : The India-Japan strategic relationship can contribute to peace and prosperity in Asia and the world, said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who arrived here on Friday on a three-day official visit expected to see progress towards India’s first bullet train and a civil nuclear deal.
“Indo-Japanese relations will contribute to peace and prosperity in Asia and the world,” Abe, while addressing the Japan-India Innovation Seminar ahead of his annual meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Saturday.
“India and Japan should sow more seeds of innovation and make them bloom.
“Japan values scientific and technical cooperation with India, a culture that has discovered the ‘zero’ and with such a fine tradition in mathematics,” he said.
Citing examples of Indo-Japanese collaboration for environment-friendly development, he said the Metro rail network was started in Delhi with Japan’s collaboration, and was rapidly expanding to other centres in India.
