India believes in the peaceful emergence of the Asian region, but China has not declared its clear vision about the region. In November 2013, China announced Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea over the Senkaku/Diayou Island, meaning thereby that any plane passing over the Island has to take the prior permission of Chinese authorities. Some of these assertive gestures by China impinge on India to search for new strategic partners at global level like USA and Australia and maintaining smooth relationship with old friend and ally Russia because of the rise of China as uncertain power, but simultaneously India also abstains from any grouping which is anti-China. India wanted to see the peaceful rise of China in the interest of the region and world at large. In the paper, an attempt has been made to explore the India global strategic partnership with special focus on India-Japan strategic partnership in the field of East Asian security, maritime security, energy, defence, space and cooperation at global forums. These two countries are emerging as good strategic partners at bilateral, regional, multilateral and global issues. To strengthen this strategic partnership, there is a need for more and more economic engagement between the two countries, which is still lagging behind the optimum level.

India believes in peaceful co-existence with its neighboring countries and with the world at large but simultaneously is also equally protective about its national security interests.1 The rise of China as an economic and military power forces our policy makers to analyze whether China will emerge as a soft power or hard power in the Asian balance of power. Up till now, China is emerging as uncertain power reflecting its aspirations and also at times assertive gestures. Moreover, the undemocratic nature of governance makes it difficult to predict its future behavior. This conflict and our past experience impinge on India to search for strategic alliance for its security interest. Japan is India’s good strategic partner in the present changing Asian balance of power because there is no conflict of interest between the two countries and in fact there is converging foreign policy interest in the changing Asian power dynamics with the emergence of China as an economic and military power.2

ndia believes in the peaceful emergence of the Asian region,