India, July 2 -- India and Japan will cement economic security, semiconductors, alternate supply chains rather than peg the close partnership around the growing bilateral defence relationship during Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's on-going three day visit to India.

The big focus of the visit is going to ramp up economic ties to a new level with Tokyo raising the level of investment into India to promised USD 61 over the next decade and pushing the bilateral trade beyond the present USD 27.5 billion. Apart from being a co-member of the QUAD, Japan is among the largest investor into India infrastructure projects including Bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad with another bullet train from Delhi to Kolkata via Varanasi projected soon....