Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has completed his 27-hour-long flying visit to Delhi, where he reiterated the need for a “free and open Indo-Pacific” while joyfully eating gol gappe with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi’s Buddha Jayanti Park. However, such cosy sentiments emerging from an increasingly shared political vision have been unable to totally eliminate the discomfort that stems from Japan’s continuing caution about manufacturing in India. As Kishida seeks to put his stamp on his own “doctrine” — which, naturally, goes beyond former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s 2008 strategic vision of “the confluence of the two seas,”...