CONTENTS: List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction Harsh V. Pant and Madhuchanda Ghosh PART I: PERSPECTIVES FROM INDIA 2. India and Japan in the Indo-Pacific Era: Evolution of Mutual Perceptions and Bilateral Relations Purnendra Jain 3. Emerging Contours of India–Japan Strategic Partnership Raj Kumar Kothari 4. The China Factor in India–Japan Relations Harsh V. Pant and Shashank Mattoo 5. The Indo-Japanese Pivot to Asia: New Opportunities and Challenges Madhuchanda Ghosh 6. Partnerships in a Multi-aligned World: Quad in the Indo-Pacific Shubhrajeet Konwer 7. Securing the Indo-Pacific: Cooperation of Two Maritime Resident Powers Joshy M. Paul 8. India, Japan and the US: Shaping Strategic Discourse in the Indo-Pacific Sayantan Haldar PART II: PERSPECTIVES FROM JAPAN 9. Japan–India Security Cooperation amidst Regional Flux Satoru Nagao 10. Japan–India Economic Partnership in an Evolving Strategic Context Makoto Kojima 11. Institutionalising the Indo-Pacific: Japan–India Cooperation over Regional Multilateralism Kei Koga 12. Afghanistan after the US Withdrawal: New Avenues for Japan–India Cooperation Kenta Aoki 13. Remembering the War: Japan’s Commemoration of the Battle of Imphal and Kohima Ryohei Kasai Notes on the Editors and Contributors Index