New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to India for the sixteenth India-Japan Annual Summit, characterising her historic go to as the beginning of a ‘new chapter’ within the world strategic partnership between two of the world’s 5 largest economies.
Speaking throughout the joint press briefing together with his Japanese counterpart, PM Modi referred to the Japanese chief as his ‘youthful sister’ whereas celebrating her milestone standing as Japan’s first feminine prime minister.
‘I welcome Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, my youthful sister to India for her first go to for the India Japan Annual Summit. She is the primary girl PM of Japan, and likewise a visionary and common chief. She is from Nara prefecture in Japan with which India has Buddhists linkages,’ he mentioned.
Reflecting on the dynamic geopolitical panorama and shifting world alliances, Modi reemphasised that the deep-rooted relationship between New Delhi and Tokyo stays remarkably resilient and serves as an important anchor for regional stability.
‘Just a couple of days in the past, on the G7 Summit, I had mentioned, that in right now’s environment of world upheaval, mutual belief is our biggest strategic asset. And I’m proud that the India-Japan partnership stands totally examined on this touchstone,’ he said.
PM Modi additional acknowledged Japan’s enduring contributions to India’s home infrastructure and industrial modernisation over the a long time, whereas casting a forward-looking imaginative and prescient for his or her shared duty as dominant financial and democratic powers in Asia.
‘Japan has performed an vital function in India’s progress story. Today, by way of PMs go to, we’re beginning a brand new chapter in our world strategic partnership. Today each are the 5 largest economic system on the earth. Ruled based mostly Indo-Pacific is our shared priorities. As the biggest democratic area, we’ve taken a number of vital initiatives. We will paved the way to peace and stability.’
Earlier, PM Modi and Takaichi held bilateral talks at Hyderabad House.
The talks marked one other step in additional strengthening the particular partnership constructed on belief. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval had been additionally current alongside different officers.
Prior to the talks, the Japanese PM Takaichi was accorded a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
During the reception on the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, PM Modi launched his cupboard colleagues and different dignitaries to the Japanese PM. Earlier, Japan expressed its pleasure to go to India as Takaichi arrived in New Delhi.
Takaichi is on a three-day official go to to India from July 1 to three on the invitation of Prime Minister Modi.
During the go to, she is going to take part within the sixteenth India-Japan Annual Summit, which is predicted to evaluation the total spectrum of bilateral cooperation and talk about regional and world problems with mutual curiosity.
India and Japan share a long-standing friendship rooted in centuries of cultural and civilizational trade, 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 throughout the Summit between PM Modi and former PM Shinzo Abe.
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 includes over 70 dialogue mechanisms.
The relationship is marked by frequent high-level political engagement. Most just lately, Prime Minister Modi interacted with the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi throughout 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. (ANI)