New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday recognised the technological partnership between India and Japan because the ‘strongest pillar’ of the bilateral ties, affirming shared resolve to converge Japan’s precision know-how with India’s software program capabilities.
Addressing a press briefing after the signing of quite a few Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) between India and Japan, PM Modi said that the 2 nations have signed key agreements relating to cooperation in Artificial Intelligence. He expressed optimism that the shared committment and efforts by India and Japan in direction of technological partnership can enhance world AI growth.
‘Prime Minister Takaichi and I consider {that a} know-how partnership will develop into the strongest pillar of our cooperation. To realise this imaginative and prescient, we’ve got additionally issued a joint assertion as we speak relating to the sphere of AI. Several key establishments throughout the Indian AI ecosystem have additionally signed agreements with their Japanese companions as we speak. The convergence of Japan’s precision know-how and India’s software program capabilities will impart new momentum and energy to world AI growth,’ he mentioned.
Further, relating to the settlement signed within the defence sector, PM Modi mentioned that the primary co-development challenge between India and Japan will assist develop defence applied sciences in addition to strengthen ‘maritime safety and regional peace.’
‘In the defence sector, we’ve got signed an settlement as we speak on the primary co-development challenge between India and Japan. This project–involving the Naval Radio Antenna ‘Unicorn’ will open a brand new chapter in our defence know-how partnership. We will now collectively develop protection applied sciences that strengthen regional peace, maritime safety, and the rules-based order,’ he said.
PM Modi additionally affirmed that the partnership between the 2 nations within the discipline of healthcare, by means of the agreements signed as we speak, will contribute to ‘world well being safety.’
‘Through the agreements signed as we speak within the fields of prescribed drugs, medical units, and biotechnology, we may even contribute to world well being safety. By combining India’s scale with Japan’s high quality, we’ll work in direction of delivering inexpensive, dependable, and superior well being options to the world,’ PM Modi mentioned.
Japanese PM Takaichi is on a three-day official go to to India from July 1 to three on the invitation of Prime Minister Modi.
India and Japan share a long-standing friendship rooted in centuries of cultural and civilizational alternate, non secular affinity, and shared values of freedom, democracy and respect for the rule of legislation.
The relationship was elevated to a Special Strategic and Global Partnership in 2014. Diplomatic relations had 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 in the course of the Summit between PM Modi and former PM Shinzo Abe.
Economic Security has emerged as a key pillar of the connection. During the first Economic Security Dialogue (ESD) held in Tokyo in November 2024, the 2 sides recognized 5 sectors as precedence sectors for strategic collaboration: semiconductors, important minerals, prescribed drugs, clear power and data and communication know-how.
The Japan-India AI Cooperation Initiative was launched in 2025. The 1st India-Japan Strategic AI Dialogue was held on 21 April 2026 in Mumbai. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gave a video message for the AI Impact Summit hosted in New Delhi in February 2026.
Additionally, High-level protection exchanges have additionally been common. The third 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministers’ Meeting was held in August 2024, and Japan’s former Defense Minister Gen Nakatani visited India for talks with Raksha Mantri in May 2025. The Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation was signed in the course of the Annual Summit in August 2025. (ANI)