Narendra Modi leaves for Japan

To strengthen bilateral ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday left for Japan for five days.

Narendra Modi will start his visit from Kyoto, the ‘smart city’ of Japan. He will be there to check the process and details before his government starts to build 100 smart cities in India. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will receive Modi in Kyoto.

The bilateral talks will be held on Monday with both sides talk on various issues including cooperation in the fields of defence, civil nuclear, infrastructure development and rare earth materials. India will push for strengthening strategic and global partnership with Japan.

“I am keenly looking forward to my visit to Japan at the invitation of my good friend, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, for the annual summit between India and Japan,” Modi said in a statement.

“It is also a reflection of Japan’s paramount importance in my vision for development and prosperity in India and in peace, stability and prosperity in Asia at large,” Modi said.

“I am confident that my visit will write a new chapter in the annals of the relations between Asia’s two oldest democracies and take our Strategic and Global Partnership to the next higher level,” he said.

“The people in India are grateful for the seminal contribution made by Japan’s generous ODA over the years to India’s economic, social and infrastructure development,” Modi added.

(Additional info: PTI)

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