An eight fold initiative to further strengthen this partnership was enunciated as an outcome of this visit. The intensity of high level contacts with Japan has continued since then and the Prime Ministers of the two countries have also met on the sidelines of the first East Asia Summit at Kuala Lumpur.
The last one year has, therefore, seen intense engagement in our bilateral relations making Japan the focus of our policy in Asia. India and Japan have many complementarities in the economic sphere also. Japan is a relatively labour scarce but capital abundant country whereas India has an abundance of an entire spectrum of human resources.