Japan Joins India-US Naval Exercises

The United States and India annually hold naval drills to sharpen skills, but this year the fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers and frigates conducting war games near the port of Chennai included a warship from Japan. India agreed to include Tokyo in the annual Malabar naval drill with the United States, eight years after New Delhi yielded to pressure from China and restricted the exercises to a bilateral format when they were held in the Indian Ocean. Japan took part on some...

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