India and Japan are set to explore joint development in naval shipbuilding and design, strengthen naval cooperation and expand the use of each other’s ship repair facilities as the two countries seek to deepen defence ties in the Indo-Pacific.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) on maritime security cooperation at the India-Japan Defence Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi on Thursday (August 20).The agreement aims to provide a framework for partnership between the Indian Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force , including information sharing for maritime domain awareness, search and rescue…