New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday confirmed the go to of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to India as a part of her three-day official go to to the nation, noting that in her go to, the Japanese PM will participate within the sixteenth India-Japan Annual Summit.
According to a press launch issued by the MEA, Prime Minister Takaichi will go to New Delhi on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from July 1 to July 3, throughout which she’s going to participate within the annual summit.
The summit is predicted to offer a possibility for each leaders to evaluation the complete spectrum of bilateral cooperation and focus on regional and world problems with mutual curiosity.
‘The Summit will present a possibility for each side to evaluation and strengthen the complete spectrum of bilateral cooperation in addition to change views on regional and world problems with mutual curiosity,’ the MEA stated in its launch.
The ministry famous that this will likely be Prime Minister Takaichi’s first official go to to India since assuming workplace and described the go to as a mirrored image of the shared dedication of each nations to additional strengthen the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
The upcoming summit follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Tokyo in August 2025 for the fifteenth India-Japan Annual Summit, throughout which the 2 nations reaffirmed their dedication to deepening cooperation throughout strategic, financial, technological and safety domains.
‘This could be the primary official go to of Prime Minister Takaichi to India. This go to follows Prime Minister Modi’s go to to Tokyo in August 2025 for the fifteenth India-Japan Annual Summit and displays the shared dedication of the 2 nations to additional improve India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership,’ the MEA launch added.
India and Japan share a long-standing Special Strategic and Global Partnership, with cooperation spanning commerce and funding, defence and safety, infrastructure, high-speed rail, digital applied sciences, clear power, and people-to-people exchanges.
Notably, Prime Minister Modi met his Japanese counterpart earlier this month on the sidelines of the 52nd G7 Summit in France, throughout which each side mentioned enhancing financial cooperation with a deal with commerce and funding.
‘Had an excellent interplay with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan. India and Japan will proceed to deepen ties in numerous sectors, with a precedence on commerce and funding,’ PM Modi stated in a put up on X, following his interplay.
During the fifteenth India-Japan Annual Summit held in Tokyo in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the then Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba adopted the joint assertion titled ‘Partnership for Security and Prosperity of Our Next Generation’.
As a part of the summit, the 2 leaders adopted a Joint Vision for the Next Decade, outlining a complete roadmap to steer bilateral ties by means of cooperation throughout eight key pillars, together with the financial system, financial safety, mobility, atmosphere, expertise and innovation, healthcare, people-to-people exchanges, and state-prefecture engagement.
The leaders additionally adopted a Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, geared toward elevating defence and safety ties in step with evolving geopolitical realities and the altering safety panorama within the Indo-Pacific area.
In a serious push to expertise mobility and workforce collaboration, India and Japan unveiled an Action Plan for India-Japan Human Resource Exchange and Cooperation, which envisages the change of greater than 500,000 personnel over the subsequent 5 years. The initiative contains facilitating the motion of fifty,000 expert professionals and potential expertise from India to Japan whereas strengthening broader people-to-people ties.
The two Prime Ministers additionally introduced the India-Japan Economic Security Initiative, designed to deepen cooperation in financial safety by strengthening resilient provide chains for important items and strategic sectors.
The initiative additionally seeks to speed up collaboration in important and rising applied sciences, with precedence areas together with telecommunications, prescribed drugs, important minerals, semiconductors and clear power. (ANI)