India, July 5 -- The outcomes of the 16th Indo-Japan Summit reveal an 'all of government plus all of business' partnership in conception and engagement of stakeholders.

When Hardeep Singh Puri and I started our Indian Foreign Service career and went on our first posting to Japan in the late 1970s, we could only have dreamt of where the relationship has reached today in these dozen years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy.

The dynamic Japanese PM, Sanae Takaichi, who blazed a trail as the first woman PM and one who won the strongest electoral mandate in Japan's post war history, visited India last week for an annual bilateral summit. She put the coping stone on a relationship that now goes beyond the conventional architectu...