日本增加與印度的經濟聯繫

Recently the NHK News reported the following:
高い経済成長が続くインドで、日本とインドの州政府が共同でインフラの整備計画を立てることになり、官民連携によるインドでの大型インフラ獲得に向けた動きが加速することになりそうです。
インフラの整備計画を日本と共同で立てることになったのは、インド南部のタミルナド州で、大規模な港があることから、インドに進出している日本企業の３分の１に当たる２７０社余りが進出しています。２２日は、州都のチェンナイで、日本から経済産業省の担当者らが出席して式典が行われ、今後州政府と日本政府が定期的に会合を開いてインフラの整備計画を立てていくことを決めました。続いて初めての会合が開かれ、港に通じる道路や橋を改修することや、日本の新幹線などを候補に挙げ、鉄道網や道路の整備計画を立てることなどを申し合わせました。インド政府は、今後５年ほどで総額で１兆ドルに上るインフラ整備を計画しており、各国の企業の契約の獲得に向けた競争が激しくなっています。式典に出席した岡田秀一経済産業審議官は「インド南部に日本企業が進出しやすい環境を整備することにつながるし、今後、さらに進出を加速させてほしい」と話していました。
In India where there was a continuous high economic growth, the government of Japan and India seemed to be accelerating jointly the movement for the large-scale infrastructure upgrading by infrastructure acquisition through government and private cooperation.
In Tamil Nadu state in the southern part of India, the infra-structure maintenance plan that had the cooperation from Japan was a large-scale port, 1/3 of total Japanese firms that had advanced into India was there, that was an equivalent of over 270 companies. On the 22nd, in the state capital Chennai, the person who was in charge of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan attended the ceremony, it was decided that for the state government and Japanese Government there would be scheduled regular sessions in the future to decide on the upgrading of infrastructure. What followed would be to hold opening meetings to negotiate the modification of roads and bridges that were connected to the port, and Shinkansen etc. of Japan was cited as the candidate to schedule the infrastructure plan for the rail systems and roads. The Indian government had planned that in future in total the infrastructure maintenance would amount to over one trillion dollars in about five years, competition in getting the contracts among the enterprises from all countries would be intense. Shuichi Okada the Economic Industrial Councillor who had attended the ceremony was saying that "It is connected to the maintenance of an environment that Japanese firms could advance easily into the southern part of India, and in addition want to accelerate the advancement in the future".

It is obvious that Japan is shifting its investment focus to India. The political and economic implications of this move can be far reaching.