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As India looks east amid trade precarity in the wake of soaring tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi secured an investment pledge of up to ¥10 trillion (about $68 billion) from his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba last week.