Japan PM Takaichi calls PM Modi, hopes for golden chapter in ties with India

India and Japan wish to open a “golden chapter” in ties, stated Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who held her first dialog with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (October 29, 2025), every week after she took workplace.

The dialog, which lasted about 25 minutes, targeted on the Quad, financial and defence cooperation and the mobility of pros, each side stated.

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In a publish, Mr. Modi stated he had mentioned their “shared imaginative and prescient for advancing the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership, with concentrate on financial safety, defence cooperation and expertise mobility”, indicating India and Japan will transfer ahead with the initiatives and agreements signed throughout Mr. Modi’s go to to Japan in August, when he met with Ms. Takaichi’s predecessor Shigeru Ishiba, who subsequently needed to resign from workplace.

The Japanese Prime Minister’s workplace stated that Ms. Takaichi said that India and Japan share “basic values and strategic pursuits”.

“Japan intends to proceed to work collectively towards realizing a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’, together with by means of Japan-Australia-India-U.S. (Quad),” it stated in assertion, including that Japan will proceed its cooperation with India on safety, economic system, funding, innovation, and people-to-people exchanges, as agreed in August. In a publish responding to Mr. Modi on social media, Ms. Takaichi stated that she wish to open a “new golden chapter within the Japan-India Special Strategic and Global Partnership”, together with Mr. Modi.

The new Japanese Prime Minister has met a lot of her Asian and Indo-Pacific counterparts already, as she attended the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur final week, that Mr. Modi pulled out of. Ms. Takaichi will likely be in Gyeongju in South Korea for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) on Thursday.

When requested about whether or not she is going to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will maintain a closely-watched Summit with U.S. President Trump on Thursday morning, the Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara stated that her schedule remains to be being finalised.

The dialog between the 2 Prime Ministers got here a day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s go to to Japan, when Ms. Takaichi had additionally referenced the Quad amongst different initiatives within the Indo-Pacific. However, it’s unclear whether or not the leaders mentioned potential dates for attending the Quad Summit, which was on account of be hosted by India this 12 months, however has been delayed on account of India-U.S. tensions over commerce and various different points.

“[Mr. Trump and I] confirmed that we are going to additional improve the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S. Alliance and to advance cooperation with like-minded companions, together with Japan-U.S.-[South Korea], Japan-U.S.-Philippines, and Japan-U.S.-Australia-India (Quad)”, Ms. Takaichi stated in a press assertion on Wednesday on the finish of the go to, including their dedication to a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), as first advocated by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe”.