India to award Shinzo Abe second-highest civilian honor

Efforts to push for free and open Indo-Pacific recognized by Modi government

Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, accompanies Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a bullet train factory in Kobe, Japan, in 2016. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)

KIRAN SHARMA and KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei staff writers

January 26, 2021 06:36 JST

NEW DELHI/NEW YORK -- India will confer one of its highest civilian awards on former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the government announced Monday.