Bangladesh-Japan relations: The prime minister’s recent visit to Japan has sparked quite a lot of discussions, particularly on the geo-strategic front for the “commitment to realising a free and open Indo-Pacific,” following the release of Bangladesh’s Indo-Pacific Outlook immediately before the summit. Yet, the “newly launched concept of Industrial Value Chain connecting the
Bangladesh, Japan, and India met in India’s Tripura on April 11-12 to put in place connectivity initiatives to harness the region’s commercial potential. In this meeting, Japan proposed to develop an industrial hub in Bangladesh, with supply chains to landlocked Northeast states in India, Nepal, and
Japan has invested around $2 billion in improving infrastructure in India’s Northeast, which Tokyo sees as a crucial part of its own Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision.