Report: India-Japan cooperation de-risks shared economic vulnerabilities

India and Japan are two big countries that are becoming close friends and partners.

A report explains that they help each other because they share some of the same problems.

Both countries worry about getting the energy and special materials they need, and about depending too much on China for important things.

They also worry that supply chains they rely on could be cut off.

So the two leaders met at a big meeting called a summit.

Prime Minister Modi of India and Prime Minister Takaichi of Japan talked about three things: keeping their economies safe, getting reliable energy, and building new technology together.

Many businesses from both countries want to work together, and a lot of money is planned for new investment.

Even though some people think Japan is only using India to protect itself from the United States, the report says that is not true.

It says the two countries are partners because they genuinely want to be, and the friendship is strong on its own.