India - Japan Relations The relation between India and Japan has a long history established in profound liking and solid social and civilizational ties. India's soonest recorded direct contact with Japan was with the Todaiji Temple in Nara, where the sanctification or educational of the transcending sculpture of Lord Buddha was performed by an Indian priest, Bodhisena, in 752 AD. The Japan India Association was set up in 1903, and is today the most seasoned global kinship body in Japan. All through the different periods of history since contacts among India and Japan started somewhere in the range of 1400 years prior, the two nations have never been enemies. Respective ties have been uniquely liberated from any sort of question – ideological, social or regional.

Post the Second World War, India didn't go to the San Francisco Conference, however, chose to finish up a different harmony bargain with Japan in 1952 after its sway was completely reestablished. The sole contradicting voice of Judge Radha Binod Pal at the War Crimes Tribunal struck a profound harmony among the Japanese open that keeps on resounding right up 'til today. The cutting edge country States have carried on the positive heritage of the old affiliation which has been fortified by shared estimations of confidence in popular government, singular opportunity and the standard of law. Throughout the years, the two nations have based upon these qualities and made an organization dependent on both guideline and practicality. Today, India is the biggest vote based system in Asia and Japan the most prosperous.

India-Japan Digital Partnership (IJDP) and Start-up Hub An "India-Japan Digital Partnership" (I-JDP) was propelled during the visit of PM Modi to Japan in October 2018, encouraging existing regions of participation just as new activities inside the extent of collaboration in S&T/ICT, concentrating more on "Advanced ICT Technologies". This additionally joins setting up "Start-up Hub" among India and Japan. MeitY will be nodal office to execute it from Indian side with Ministry of Communications (MoC), DIPP, NITI Aayog different partners, and METI from Japanese side with MEXT and MIC different partners from Japanese sides. During Minister Seko's visit to India in May 2018, a Joint Statement on Japan-India Startup Initiative was marked and first Startup Hub was built up in Bangalore by JETRO to recognize chosen Indian new companies for the Japanese market and for expected Japanese speculators.

From that point, Startup-India (under Invest India) and Japan Innovation Network (JIN) have marked a MoU on advancement cooperation with attention on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) interfacing two beginning up eco-frameworks in June 2018. Contribute India additionally propelled online entry for the Start-up centre point. Association Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri. Piyush Goyal went to the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Trade and Digital Economy on 8-9 June 2019 in Tsukuba and took part in conversations identifying with expanding exchange and participation to bridle the capability of an advanced economy. Uninvolved, he held a two-sided meeting with METI Minister Hiroshige Seko on India-Japan respective participation in exchange and venture.