New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Infosys plans to create a bigger footprint in Japan to tap the transformation across the manufacturing sector through its joint venture with Hitachi, Panasonic and Pasona, as it looks to expand in a country that has long been averse to outsourcing. Infosys formed the alliance last month with two Japanese hi-tech electronics firms and one HR firm to build solutions that use digital technology platforms to improve indirect procurement. For long, Indian IT services companies have struggled to expand their business in Japan, a developed market, which has traditionally been slow to embrace outsourcing. With companies such as Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies and others strengthening their platform-led services model, th...