The roadmap aims to boost economic growth, security, technology, and people-to-people ties between the two nations.
India and Japan have adopted a Joint Vision for the Next Decade during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tokyo on 29–30 August 2025 at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru. The vision outlines eight key directions to strengthen the Special Strategic and Global Partnership and prepare both nations for future challenges and opportunities.
The eight areas of focus include:
- Next Generation Economic Partnership – Expanding investment, trade, industrial cooperation, SME collaboration, food security, and joint projects in India, South Asia, and Africa. A new target of JPY 10 trillion in Japanese private investment in India was set.
- Next Generation Economic Security Partnership – Strengthening supply chains and advancing cooperation in semiconductors, critical minerals, biotechnology, AI, clean energy, and telecommunications through government and private sector collaboration.
- Next Generation Mobility – Building joint solutions in high-speed rail, smart cities, advanced transport systems, green shipping, and cold-chain logistics while boosting manufacturing and disaster-resilient infrastructure.
- Next Generation Ecological Legacies – Advancing climate action through clean energy cooperation, waste-to-energy technology, sustainable farming, biodiversity conservation, and green hydrogen.
- Next Generation Technology and Innovation Partnership – Expanding collaboration in quantum technology, space missions like LUPEX, startups, AI, ICT, nuclear energy research, and food technology.
- Investing in Next Gen Health – Strengthening cooperation in universal health coverage, pandemic preparedness, affordable medicines, geriatric care, and alternative medicine such as Ayurveda and Yoga.
- Next Gen People-to-People Partnership – Facilitating the exchange of more than 500,000 people over five years, expanding Japanese language education in India, promoting student and researcher exchanges, and boosting tourism.
- Next Gen State-Prefecture Partnership – Expanding sister-city ties, boosting direct flights, enhancing regional economic cooperation, and promoting regular state-level exchanges between India and Japan.
Both leaders expressed confidence that this roadmap will bring India and Japan closer together while benefiting the next generation. The adoption of this Joint Vision marks a new phase in bilateral ties as both countries move towards the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2027.
Source – PMO
