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India and Japan would similar to unfastened a “golden chapter” successful ties, said Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who held her archetypal speech with Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025), a week aft she took office.
The conversation, which lasted astir 25 minutes, focused connected the Quad, economical and defence practice and the mobility of professionals, some sides said.
In a post, Mr. Modi said helium had discussed their “shared imaginativeness for advancing the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership, with absorption connected economical security, defence practice and endowment mobility”, indicating India and Japan volition determination guardant with the initiatives and agreements signed during Mr. Modi’s sojourn to Japan successful August, erstwhile helium met with Ms. Takaichi’s predecessor Shigeru Ishiba, who subsequently had to resign from office.
The Japanese Prime Minister’s bureau said that Ms. Takaichi stated that India and Japan stock “fundamental values and strategical interests”.
“Japan intends to proceed to enactment unneurotic toward realizing a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’, including done Japan-Australia-India-U.S. (Quad),” it said successful statement, adding that Japan volition proceed its practice with India connected security, economy, investment, innovation, and people-to-people exchanges, arsenic agreed successful August. In a station responding to Mr. Modi connected societal media, Ms. Takaichi said that she would similar to unfastened a “new aureate section successful the Japan-India Special Strategic and Global Partnership”, on with Mr. Modi.
The caller Japanese Prime Minister has met galore of her Asian and Indo-Pacific counterparts already, arsenic she attended the ASEAN acme successful Kuala Lumpur past week, that Mr. Modi pulled retired of. Ms. Takaichi volition beryllium successful Gyeongju successful South Korea for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) connected Thursday.
When asked astir whether she volition conscionable Chinese President Xi Jinping, who volition clasp a closely-watched Summit with U.S. President Trump connected Thursday morning, the Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said that her docket is inactive being finalised.
The speech betwixt the 2 Prime Ministers came a time aft U.S. President Donald Trump’s sojourn to Japan, erstwhile Ms. Takaichi had besides referenced the Quad amongst different initiatives successful the Indo-Pacific. However, it is unclear whether the leaders discussed imaginable dates for attending the Quad Summit, which was owed to beryllium hosted by India this year, but has been delayed owed to India-U.S. tensions implicit commercialized and a fig of different issues.
“[Mr. Trump and I] confirmed that we volition further heighten the deterrence and effect capabilities of the Japan-U.S. Alliance and to beforehand practice with like-minded partners, including Japan-U.S.-[South Korea], Japan-U.S.-Philippines, and Japan-U.S.-Australia-India (Quad)”, Ms. Takaichi said successful a property connection connected Wednesday astatine the extremity of the visit, adding their committedness to a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), arsenic archetypal advocated by erstwhile Prime Minister Shinzo Abe”.
