'India-Japan relations will bring peace in Asia, world'

New Delhi, Dec 11: The India-Japan strategic relationship “will contribute to peace and prosperity in Asia and the world” and both countries should step up cooperation in science and technology, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday. “Indo-Japanese relations will contribute to peace and prosperity in Asia and the world,” Abe, who arrived here on an official visit, said while addressing the Japan-India Innovation Semir. “India and Japan should sow more seeds of innovation and make them bloom,” he said recalling that the previous edition of the semir had also coincided with his visit here. “Japan values scientific and technical cooperation with India, a culture that has discovered the ‘zero’ and with such a fine tradition in mathematics,” Abe added.  (IANS)