Tokyo [Japan], July 28 (ANI): India’s Ambassador to Japan, Sibi George, met with Japan’s Minister for Economic Security, Minoru Kiuchi, and mentioned methods to spice up the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership, notably within the fields of financial safety, area, and science and expertise.
‘Ambassador @AmbSibiGeorge welcomed H.E. Mr. Minoru Kiuchi, Hon’ble Minister for Economic Security of Japan, at India House, and mentioned strengthening additional India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership, notably in areas of financial safety, area, and science & expertise,’ the Indian Embassy in Japan stated in a publish on X,on Monday.
The assembly comes amid a collection of latest diplomatic and strategic engagements between the 2 international locations geared toward deepening bilateral cooperation.
Earlier this week, the occasion ‘IPOI: India-Japan Partnership in Maritime Connectivity’ was held on the Indian Embassy in Tokyo. Ambassador Sibi George delivered the inaugural remarks, with particular addresses by Japan’s former Defence Minister and MP Minoru Kihara, India’s Secretary (East) P. Kumaran, and Shingo Miyamoto, Director General at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The discussions targeted on enhancing maritime linkages throughout the Indo-Pacific.
Last month, India’s Union Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, met Terada Yoshimichi, Japan’s Vice Minister for International Affairs, in Oslo to develop maritime cooperation. The talks included doable Japanese investments in Indian shipyards, digital port methods, inexperienced expertise, and growing sustainable islands within the Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep areas.
In April 2025, following a terror assault in Pahalgam, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba referred to as Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply condolences. Earlier, each PM Ishiba and Foreign Minister Iwaya had issued public messages expressing sympathy.
The India-Japan relationship has seen regular high-level exchanges. In October 2024, PM Modi met PM Ishiba on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Laos, the place each leaders reviewed cooperation in infrastructure, connectivity, and defence.
Strategic dialogues have additionally continued. In August 2024, the seventeenth India-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue and the third 2+2 Ministerial Meeting had been held in New Delhi, underscoring the 2 international locations’ shared imaginative and prescient for peace, maritime safety, and financial progress within the area. (ANI)