Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming state visit to India is unconventional as he will be spending little time in Delhi. By this unusual gesture to visit only Gujarat, the front-runner of reforms in India, he pays the highest tribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Their chemistry fits remarkably. Both are expected to officially launch the high-speed rail project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, which adopts the well-known disaster-proof Shinkansen system of Japan. This exceptional infrastructure project follows excellent Japan-India cooperation on a series of projects, such as the Delhi Metro and similar initiatives in major cities, industrial corridor projects between Delhi and Mumbai as well as Chennai and Bengaluru, and the Delhi-Mumbai rail freight corridor project. The Shinkansen project is a precursor to the one between Chennai and Bengaluru and, perhaps, other high-speed train systems in the future.
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