Get ready, the Japanese are here

Imagine this. You're at a cocktail dinner with your team and business partners. Jeans and a T-shirt seem perfectly acceptable until the Japanese delegation walks in, impeccably dressed in business suits.

It may seem like a trivial detail. But for a growing number of Indian professionals, it could soon become part of everyday working life experience.

For decades, India and Japan have built one of Asia's strongest strategic partnerships, with the latter playing a pivotal role in financing India's infrastructure ambitions, from metro rail projects to industrial corridors, and helping build its manufacturing ecosystem.