Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived this week in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat for what was the tenth meeting between the two leaders since Modi came to power in 2014.
The centrepiece of the visit has been the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project. Modi and Abe laid the foundation stone for the bullet train in Ahmedabad on Thursday, with the former lauding Japan as India's friend for having extended a Rs 88,000 crore loan at just 0.1 per cent interest.
Further cementing their bilateral ties, India and Japan on Thursday also signed
