PM Modi arrives in Japan on two-day visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Tokyo, Japan on a two-day visit on Friday, August 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: X/@narendramodi

Tokyo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Friday August 29, 2025 on a two-day visit during which he will hold summit talks with his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba.

“PM Narendra Modi has landed in Tokyo, Japan. PM will be holding wide-ranging discussions with PM Shigeru Ishiba later in the evening to advance the India-Japan partnership,” the Ministry of External Affairs said in a post on X.

In his departure statement, Prime Minister Modi said his visit to Japan will be an opportunity to strengthen civilisational bonds and cultural ties between the two countries.

During his visit to Japan from August 29 to 30, Modi will hold summit talks with his Japanese PM Ishiba.

“We would focus on shaping the next phase in our Special Strategic and Global Partnership, which has made steady and significant progress over the past 11 years,” Modi said.

“We would endeavour to give new wings to our collaboration, expand scope and ambition of our economic and investment ties, and advance cooperation in new and emerging technologies, including AI and semiconductors,” he added.

From Japan, Modi will travel to China on a two-day visit to attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tianjin on August 31 and September 1.

“I am confident that my visits to Japan and China would further our national interests and priorities, and contribute to building fruitful cooperation in advancing regional and global peace, security, and sustainable development,” he said.

This is worth mentioning that the two Prime Ministers will hold the much-delayed 15 th annual summit, and are expected to upgrade the 2008 Declaration on Security Cooperation, including defence hardware purchases, launch an “Economic Security” initiative to build resilient supply chains in a number of areas such as critical minerals and Artificial Intelligence, and increase Japan’s investment targets to around $68 billion.

At the India-Japan Summit with Prime Minister Ishiba, the two sides will release a joint statement as well as the “2035 Vision Statement” for the future of the relationship to upgrade the 2025 Vision Statement announced by Prime minister Narendra Modi and then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a decade ago. The meeting on Friday August 29, 2025 marks 20 years since the first annual summit in 2005 when Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met PM Manmohan Singh in Delhi.

(With PTI Inputs )