India and Japan on Thursday inked a ‘memorandum of arrangement’ on maritime cooperation facilitating greater synergy between navies of the two countries and said they were exploring joint development in naval warship building.AdvertisementThe move was announced in a statement that followed a bilateral meeting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi, here in New Delhi.AdvertisementThe maritime security cooperation would be between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Indian Navy, including on information sharing in the field of maritime domain awareness, as well as enhanced cooperation in search and rescue missions.AdvertisementThe statement listed the scope of...

