Author : Pratnashree Basu

Published on: Sep 03, 2025

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on August 29–30, 2025, set a forward-leaning trajectory for strategic cooperation between New Delhi and Tokyo. As India’s first standalone summit with Ishiba—and Modi’s eighth visit to Japan since assuming office, this engagement elevated bilateral ties across economic, security, technological, and people-to-people domains. The visit comes as US President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on Indian exports take effect, and amid Washington’s inconsistent signaling on Indo-Pacific security.

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