Strong Strategic Partnership and Weak People-to-People Ties

This chapter employs the concept of Social capital to understand weak people to people ties between India and Japan. While bilateral relations between the two countries have prospered in the field of defense and security fields, the social connections between the two countries remains week. While there has been flow of technology and trade between the two countries as a result of strategic partnership, common Indians have gained little from the burgeoning India-Japan partnership, finds this study. The author argues that people to people partnership remains week as a result of a weak social connections between the countries and offers some suggestions on how to strengthen the partnership.