New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI) Hailing India and Japan as the most important democratic and market economies within the Indo-Pacific area, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned each international locations have taken a number of essential initiatives to pave the best way for peace, stability and progress in the whole area.
Addressing a joint press assertion with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, PM Modi referred to his remarks on the at latest G7 Summit about mutual belief being the largest asset in right this moment’s setting of worldwide turmoil.
‘I’m proud that the India-Japan partnership totally stands this take a look at. In the previous couple of many years, from automotive to electronics, Japan has made a contribution as an essential associate in India’s progress story, constructing a useful asset of friendship and belief. And right this moment, with Prime Minister Takaichi’s go to, we’re beginning a brand new chapter in our particular strategic and international partnership,’ PM Modi mentioned in his remarks delivered at Hyderabad House after bilateral talks with the Japanese PM.
In the sector of defence, PM Modi acknowledged that the 2 international locations have signed an settlement on the primary India-Japan co-development challenge.
‘This challenge for Naval Radio Antenna UNICORN will open a brand new chapter in our defence know-how partnership. Now we’ll collectively develop such defecse applied sciences which can strengthen regional peace, maritime safety and rules-based order,’ PM Modi acknowledged.
India and Japan share a long-standing friendship rooted in centuries of cultural and civilizational change, non secular affinity, and shared values of freedom, democracy and respect for the rule of regulation.
The relationship was elevated to a Special Strategic and Global Partnership in 2014. Diplomatic relations have been established in 1952; the connection was launched as a Global Partnership in 2000, upgraded to a Strategic and Global Partnership in 2006, and elevated to a Special Strategic and Global Partnership in 2014 through the Summit between PM Modi and former PM Shinzo Abe.
Meanwhile, in her remarks delivered in Japanese on the joint press assertion, Takaichi, who’s visiting India from July 1-3, emphasised that Japan and India ‘should leverage respective strengths to turn out to be stronger and extra affluent collectively within the midst of worldwide affairs in disarray.’
Takaichi famous that enlargement of maritime safety cooperation is particularly essential for regional peace and stability.
‘I not too long ago introduced the up to date FOIP, Free and Open Indo-Pacific, which focuses on self-reliance and resilience to appreciate FOIP,’ she acknowledged.
A destroyer of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force and an Indian Navy vessel are planning to interact in joint train, the Japanese PM acknowledged.
‘We will improve workouts within the Indian Ocean, promote naval upkeep, restore and overhaul cooperation and strengthen tools cooperation below the Make in India framework. In order to deepen such cooperation, I’ve instructed the related departments to carry discussions and to prepare the following Japan-India 2+2 earlier than the tip of the yr,’ Takaichi acknowledged.
Noting that 2027 marks the seventy fifth anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Japan, Takaichi acknowledged that she want to seize this chance to additional convey nearer collectively the folks of our two international locations. ‘Under the India-Japan particular strategic international partnership, as trusted companions that share strategic route, along with my greater brother, Prime Minister Modi, I’ll lead the India-Japan relations going ahead to a brand new section. I look ahead to welcoming Prime Minister Modi in Japan subsequent time,’ Takaichi mentioned.
As the 2 international locations method the seventy fifth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations in 2027, cooperation continues to deepen throughout a variety of sectors, together with commerce and funding, financial safety, defence and safety, science and know-how, tradition, and people-to-people ties. The bilateral framework now contains over 70 dialogue mechanisms.
Most not too long ago, Prime Minister Modi interacted with the Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, through the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France in June 2026. The two leaders had earlier met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg in November 2025. Prior to that, PM Modi had congratulated PM Takaichi on assuming workplace in a phone name in October 2025.
PM Modi visited Japan for the fifteenth Annual Summit in Tokyo in August 2025. The Annual Summit stays the flagship platform driving the strategic agenda of the partnership.
Apart from annual summits, high-level exchanges and conferences recurrently happen at Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, NSA, Foreign Secretary/Vice Minister and different ranges. Key mechanisms embody the two+2 Foreign and Defence Ministers’ Meeting, Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue, Foreign Secretary-Vice Minister Dialogue, Defence Ministerial Meeting, Economic Security Dialogue, and the Act East Forum.
The 18th Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue was held in New Delhi on January 16 this yr between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. The two Foreign Ministers met once more through the Quad FMM in May 2026. In April 2026, EAM participated within the AZEC Plus assembly chaired by PM Takaichi to debate supply-chain disruptions in vitality markets in gentle of developments in West Asia. Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas visited Japan from November 16-19, 2025 together with representatives of India’s vitality sector. (ANI)