Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (August 30, 2025) left for China to attend the SCO summit after wrapping up a two-day go to to Japan.
During his go to, India and Japan firmed up 13 key agreements and declarations and introduced the launch of a number of key initiatives.
“This visit to Japan will be remembered for the productive outcomes which will benefit the people of our nations. I thank PM Ishiba, the Japanese people and the Government for their warmth,” the prime minister mentioned in an X publish.
The new measures to additional increase the India-Japan particular strategic and world partnership had been unveiled following summit talks between Prime Minister Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba.
Japan set an funding goal of 10 trillion yen (roughly ₹60,000 crore) in India over a decade and the 2 sides sealed a raft of big-ticket pacts, together with a framework for defence ties and a 10-year roadmap to largely enhance financial partnership.
Other agreements signed embody an financial safety structure to promote provide chain resilience in strategic sectors corresponding to semiconductors, clear vitality, telecom, prescription drugs, crucial minerals and new and rising applied sciences.
The Prime Minister, who landed in Tokyo on Friday (August 29, 2025), mentioned India-Japan cooperation is essential for world peace and stability, and each side have laid a robust basis for a “new and golden chapter” within the partnership.
The 10-year roadmap focuses on considerably increasing total financial ties. It comprised a number of key pillars for boosting engagement that included financial safety, mobility, ecological sustainability, know-how and innovation, well being, people-to-people exchanges and engagements between Indian states and Japanese prefectures.
The two sides additionally signed an implementing association for the Chandrayaan-5 mission, a joint exploration of the polar area of the moon by the area companies of the 2 international locations.
On Saturday, Mr. Modi met governors of 16 Japanese prefectures in Tokyo and referred to as for strengthening state-prefecture cooperation beneath the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
Later, he additionally travelled with Mr. Ishiba to Sendai within the Japanese prefecture of Miyagi to go to a semiconductor plant.
On to China
During his two-day go to to China, Mr. Modi will attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tianjin on August 31 and September 1.
The summit of the 10-member bloc is considered important and most consequential from the viewpoint of India-China relations within the present context of a sudden downturn in India-U.S. ties after Mr. Trump imposed 50% tariffs on Indian exports.
This might be Mr. Modi’s first go to to China in seven years.
