Ishiba, Modi confirm ramping up Japan-India cooperation in broad areas

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has held a summit with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Tokyo. They confirmed a plan to revise a 2008 joint declaration on security to include concrete steps for defense cooperation.

They also agreed to set a new target of 10 trillion yen, for private-sector investment in India from Japan over the next decade or so. Regarding person-to-person exchanges, they agreed to aim for such exchanges involving over 500,000 people over the next five years, including 50,000 from India to Japan.