India, Aug. 29 -- India and Japan may forge a partnership for manufacturing the next generation E10 Shinkansen bullet trains in India, with an announcement likely during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Japan this week, people familiar with the matter said.

The collaboration will further strengthen India-Japan economic cooperation, and the two partners have agreed in principle on the joint manufacturing of the E10 Shinkansen, which is derived from the ALFA-X experimental train, the people said requesting anonymity.

The move will bolster the ongoing collaboration between the two countries on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed railway project, which has a total length of 508 km.

"The project is in line with the success of the...