{"id":9285,"date":"2015-12-13T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T12:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2015-12-13T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T12:05:23","slug":"india-japan-pact-signed-for-high-speed-train-project-and-transfer-of-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9285","title":{"rendered":"India-Japan pact signed for High Speed Train Project and transfer of Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/India-japan-agreements.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9286 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/India-japan-agreements.jpg\" alt=\"India-japan-agreements\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News Powered by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/\"> General Knowledge Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>India on Saturday said Japan would take part in the India-US Malabar naval exercises on a regular basis to deal with maritime challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\">\u00a0In a major boost to Indo-Japan ties, the two countries also signed a pact regarding the transfer of defence equipment and technology after the annual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey reaffirmed their commitment to continue discussions to deepen the bilateral defence relationship including through two-way collaboration and technology cooperation, co-development and co-production,\u201d the joint statement issued after the summit said.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides also expressed their \u201cintention to explore potential future projects on defence equipment and technology cooperation such as US-2 amphibian aircraft\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>India and Japan have been holding talks for two years on the purchase by India of US-2 amphibious aircraft made by ShinMaywa Industries, which would be one of Japan\u2019s first arms sales since Abe lifted a 50-year ban on weapon exports.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign secretary S Jaishankar said a purchase of US-2 was discussed in Saturday\u2019s meeting and the \u201cmatter remains under consideration\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have set up a joint working group on the US-2 STOL (short takeoff and landing) search and rescue amphibian and talks are in an advanced stage, defence ministry sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Powered by General Knowledge Today India on Saturday said Japan would take part in the India-US Malabar naval exercises on a regular basis to deal with maritime challenges in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9285\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[603],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-india","tag-india-japan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}