Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi lands in New Delhi on July 1 for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit, her first official visit to India, with an agenda officials describe as spanning trade, defence technology, semiconductors, critical minerals and supply-chain resilience. The summit is in the capital. The strategy it advances begins 2,000 km east, in the hills and riverine plains of India’s Northeast.advertisementRead Full StoryIn fact, New Delhi and Tokyo had floated Assam as the venue before Takaichi’s parliamentary schedule in the Diet forced the shift. The consideration alone signalled how far the region has travelled in Japanese strategic thinking:…