Japanese firms turn toward India as the risks of China deepen

TOKYO — Japan’s corporations are placing an ever-larger share of their future on India. With the home market shrinking as the population ages, and with the risks of operating in China mounting, boardrooms in Tokyo are directing investment toward the one market that offers both scale and a friendlier horizon.

It is the kind of quiet realignment that redraws trade maps over a decade rather than a day — and small trading nations, ours included, do well to watch where the big money believes the future lives.

— LRTVS News Desk