NLU Tripura hosted session on India-Japan Special Strategic Partnership: Implications for Northeast India

The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (CNESPR), NLU Tripura, organised a special lecture on “India–Japan Special Strategic Partnership: Implications for Northeast India” on 30 January 2026 at the Moot Court Hall, National Law University, Tripura.

The lecture was delivered by Mr Abe Nariaki, Minister of Political Affairs, Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, and formally inaugurated by Prof. Yogesh Pratap Singh, Vice-Chancellor, NLU Tripura, and Dr Dipikanta Chakraborty, Director, CNESPR, in the presence of faculty members, Ph.D. scholars and students.

In his address, Mr Abe highlighted the current state of India–Japan relations under the Special Strategic and Global Partnership and emphasised the strategic importance of Northeast India as a key convergence point of India’s Act East Policy and Japan’s Look East orientation, as well as a gateway to Southeast Asia.

He outlined Japan’s engagement in the region through infrastructure, social sector and connectivity projects. He further discussed the major pillars of cooperation, including security, trade and investment, innovation and digital technologies, and human resource development, along with emerging areas such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, clean energy, climate action, health, disaster management and advanced science and technology, including space and lunar cooperation.

Reaffirming commitment to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific and the QUAD framework, he concluded that sustained multilateral engagement and deeper cooperation in Northeast India are essential for a stable, inclusive and rules-based regional order and for the future of the India–Japan partnership. The lecture concluded with an interactive session and with the observation that a multilateral engagement between India and Japan is an imperative to ensure a stable, inclusive and rules-based regional order, and that deeper engagement in Northeast India would remain central to the future trajectory of the India-Japan partnership.