Japan Ready to Play Prominent Role in Indo-Pacific, Says Japanese Ambassador to India
December 8, 2017
Elaborating upon Japan’s role in the shifting geopolitics in Asia, the Japanese Ambassador to India, HE Kenji Hiramatsu today said that his country’s ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy’ is a statement of Japan’s aim of improving the inter-regional and intra-regional connectivity and promoting fundamental values like freedom, openness and Rule of Law in the region.
HE Hiramatsu was speaking at a one-day symposium on ‘Shifting Geopolitics in Asia: India-Japan Relations and the Future of Indo-Pacific Region’, organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), along with the Japan Foundation in New Delhi, on December 8, 2017.
