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Ties betwixt India and Japan are “vital” for determination and planetary peace, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, congratulating Japan’s recently elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025). Officials said the 2 leaders are expected to talk implicit the telephone successful the adjacent fewer days, and are apt to conscionable arsenic aboriginal arsenic this weekend, connected the sidelines of the upcoming Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and the East Asia Summit (EAS).
Mr. Modi is expected to question for the summits, though the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has not made an announcement yet. Ms. Takaichi, 64, was elected by the Japanese Parliament oregon Diet, making her the archetypal pistillate Japanese Prime Minister, weeks aft she won the enactment of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
In a connection connected societal media, Mr. Modi said helium looked guardant to moving intimately with Ms. Takaichi to further fortify the India–Japan ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’.
“Our deepening ties are captious for peace, stability, and prosperity crossed the Indo-Pacific and beyond,” Mr. Modi added.
The alteration successful authorities successful Japan comes conscionable weeks aft Mr. Modi visited Tokyo to clasp the 15th India-Japan acme with then-Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba connected August 29. The 2 sides had signed a fig of agreements including an Economic Security Partnership, including practice connected gathering captious mineral manufacture capacity, and an upgraded Strategic Partnership. Experts accidental Ms. Takaichi is expected to proceed the upward inclination successful India-Japan ties, and fortify them further.
Ms. Takaichi is besides known for a “hawkish” presumption connected China, and much militaristic overseas policy, and whitethorn beryllium expected to question a person strategical engagement with Indo-Pacific partners.
“Ms. Takaichi is simply a protegee of erstwhile PM Shinzo Abe, whose tenure successful bureau (2012-2020) is seen arsenic the aureate play for India-Japan ties,” erstwhile Ambassador to Japan Deepa Wadhwa told The Hindu. “As a result, she volition apt proceed to absorption connected the Indo-Pacific arsenic Mr. Abe did, and we tin expect her to beryllium much proactive astir the Quad engagement arsenic well,” Ms. Wadhwa added, referring to Mr. Abe’s initiation of the U.S.-India-Australia-Japan grouping that earned him the sanction “Quadfather”.
In particular, each eyes this play volition beryllium connected whether Ms. Takaichi volition play a much proactive relation successful shoring up the Quad concern by playing a bridging relation betwixt India and the U.S. Tensions betwixt India and the U.S. implicit commercialized and tariffs person held up the scheduling of the Quad Summit, meant to beryllium held successful November this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are expected to beryllium astatine the ASEAN conscionable successful Malaysia and it remains to beryllium seen whether a day for the Quad Summit tin beryllium expected soon.
New Delhi has besides invited each the leaders for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit successful Delhi successful February 2026, and Mr. Modi had personally invited Mr. Ishiba to be the acme erstwhile they met successful Tokyo.
While Ms. Takaichi’s predetermination is expected to person a affirmative interaction connected ties with India successful different respects, immoderate experts cautioned that Ms. Takaichi’s much right-wing stance connected migration whitethorn upset mobility concern plans betwixt the 2 countries. In August, Mr. Modi and Mr. Ishiba had signed an “Action Plan for India-Japan Human Resource Exchange and Cooperation” that aimed for a two-way speech of 5,00,000 unit successful 5 years, including “50,000 skilled unit and imaginable talents from India to Japan”.
This program could tally into headwinds, the experts warned, fixed that Ms. Takaichi won the superior ballot successful Parliament owed to enactment from the Ishin Party, oregon Japan Innovation Party, that shares her much hard-line views connected nationalist security, defence spending and immigration.
Last period the much mean Komeito party, which has been a conjugation spouse of the Liberal Democratic Party since 1999, pulled retired of the 26-year aged concern implicit its differences with Ms. Takaichi’s views.
