PM Narendra Modi jetted off to Tokyo on Friday (August 29, 2025) for a two-day visit to attend the 15th Annual India-Japan Joint Summit as well as to hold bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
Addressing the Tokyo India-Japan Joint Economic Summit, PM Modi said, “India-Japan partnership in metro, manufacturing, semiconductors, start-ups and every other sector became a symbol of mutual trust”.
On the sidelines of the summit, PM Modi held bilateral talks with Japan PM Ishiba with an eye to strengthen bilateral ties in areas of defence, trade & commerce, investment and high-tech technologies.
India and Japan also released the “2035 Vision Statement” to upgrade the 2025 Vision Statement announced by PM Modi and then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about 10 years ago.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, Former Japanese Prime Ministers Yoshihide Suga and Fumio Kishida visited Mr. Modi.
The meeting on 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.
