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With increasing concerns implicit tensions with China and small anticipation of the Quad Summit successful the adjacent future, Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is expected to sermon strengthening India-Japan ties successful the Indo-Pacific during talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar successful Delhi connected Friday (January 16, 2026).
The 2 Ministers volition clasp the 18th Japan-India Strategic Dialogue and sermon taking guardant the Japanese inaugural for a “Free and Open Indo Pacific” (FOIP) and practice connected Artificial Intelligence, semiconductor exertion and innovation.
The sojourn by Mr. Motegi is his archetypal to India since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won enactment elections and formed a caller conjugation successful November 2025, though helium had visited successful 2019 during his erstwhile tenure arsenic well. Ms. Takaichi, whose popularity has surged successful the past fewer months, is expected to telephone drawback polls successful February successful bid to consolidate her position, and is expected to marque the announcement to dissolve the little location of parliament arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.
Mr. Motegi, who is travelling to India astatine the extremity of a 9-day circuit that included Israel, Palestine and Qatar, volition stock notes connected the concern successful Iran arsenic good arsenic the Gaza Peace Proposal. In addition, helium is travelling to India to the Philippines, wherever helium and his Philippines counterpart Theresa Lazaro signed 2 defence agreements, including 1 for reciprocal subject entree and different to money patrol boats for the Philippines successful the South China Sea, and is apt to sermon concerns implicit Chinese question successful the portion with Mr. Jaishankar arsenic well.
“The Secretary and I besides confirmed the value of the Japan, Philippines, U.S. trilateral practice in the look of an progressively terrible strategical environment,” Mr. Motegi said successful a associated quality league successful Manila connected Thursday (January 15, 2026).
During talks connected Friday (January 16, 2026) successful Delhi, Japan is keen to clasp the 2nd of circular of talks betwixt elder officials connected economical security, and statesman a B2B backstage assemblage dialog connected the issue, said officials alert of the docket for talks. The Japanese authorities is acrophobic implicit the economical interaction of its 2-month agelong spat with China implicit comments by Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, wherever she said a Chinese takeover of Taiwan would airs an “existential” menace to Japan.
Beijing retaliated to what it called a menace of enactment by freezing tourism and commercialized ties and banning imports of Japanese seafood. Last week, the Chinese authorities besides stepped up restrictions connected the import of Japanese chemicals utilized for semiconductors and different goods it labelled “dual-use”, which the Japanese authorities spokesperson called “absolutely unacceptable and profoundly regrettable.“
At the aforesaid time, India-U.S. tensions implicit commercialized and different issues implicit the past twelvemonth person held up the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. Quad Summit, for which U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to sojourn India successful 2025. No dates are being discussed for the adjacent Quad Summit astatine present, authorities and diplomatic sources officials confirmed, though Quad moving groups connected Counter-terrorism (CTWG) and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Cooperation were held successful December 2025.
The 2 Ministers are expected to sermon Japan’s information successful the upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit successful Delhi connected February 19-20, which Japan’s specially-designated “IP & AI Strategy” Minister would be and would acceptable up a abstracted Japan-India AI Strategic Dialogue, officials told The Hindu.
They would besides spell implicit advancement connected the “FOIP” agenda that includes improvement of infrastructure successful India’s North Eastern States, done the “Act East Forum” and the India-Japan “Kizuna” Dialogue, acceptable to beryllium held successful Shillong adjacent month, the officials said.
