15th India–Japan Annual Summit in Tokyo: Joint Vision for the Next Decade, security declaration and ¥10 trillion investment target
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba held the 15th India–Japan Annual Summit in Tokyo on 29 August 2025, adopting a Joint Vision for the Next Decade, a Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation and a ¥10 trillion private investment target.
Summary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held the 15th India–Japan Annual Summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Kantei in Tokyo on 29 August 2025, during his Official Working Visit to Japan on 29–30 August. The leaders adopted a Joint Vision for the Next Decade with eight lines of effort, a Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, and an Action Plan for Human Resource Exchange targeting two-way exchange of 500,000 people, including 50,000 skilled and semi-skilled Indian workers to Japan, in five years. They set a new target of ¥10 trillion of private investment from Japan to India over the next decade and launched an Economic Security Initiative and an India–Japan AI Initiative. The 13 documents in the list of outcomes include an ISRO–JAXA implementing arrangement for the joint lunar polar exploration mission (Chandrayaan-5), a Memorandum of Cooperation on the Joint Crediting Mechanism, and a Digital Partnership 2.0.
Key facts
- Date / venue
- 29 Aug 2025, Kantei, Tokyo
- Leaders
- PM Narendra Modi and PM Shigeru Ishiba
- Visit type
- Official Working Visit, 29–30 Aug 2025
- Joint Vision
- Eight lines of effort for the next decade
- Investment target
- ¥10 trillion private investment in 10 years (earlier: ¥5 trillion for 2022–26)
- Human resource plan
- 500,000 two-way exchanges incl. 50,000 skilled/semi-skilled Indians in 5 years
- Space
- ISRO–JAXA arrangement on joint lunar polar mission (Chandrayaan-5)
- Other initiatives
- Economic Security Initiative; India–Japan AI Initiative; JCM MoC; Digital Partnership 2.0
Practice MCQs 5 questions
At the 15th India–Japan Annual Summit (29 August 2025), what new target was set for private investment from Japan to India over the next decade?
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Correct answer: D — JPY 10 trillion
The Joint Vision sets a new target of JPY 10 trillion of private investment, building on the 2022–2026 target of JPY 5 trillion of public and private investment and financing.
The Action Plan for India–Japan Human Resource Exchange adopted in August 2025 aims at a two-way exchange of how many people in five years?
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Correct answer: D — 5,00,000
The plan targets two-way exchange of 500,000 people, including 50,000 skilled and semi-skilled personnel from India to Japan, in the next five years.
An Implementing Arrangement signed between ISRO and JAXA at the 15th Annual Summit concerns which mission?
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Correct answer: D — Chandrayaan-5 (joint lunar polar exploration)
The ISRO–JAXA Implementing Arrangement concerns the Joint Lunar Polar Exploration Mission, i.e. the Chandrayaan-5 mission.
Consider the following statements about the India–Japan Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation (August 2025): 1. It envisages enhanced maritime domain awareness through the Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR). 2. It provides for exploring a new meeting framework on comprehensive dialogue between the Joint Staffs of the two sides. Which of the above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: C — Both 1 and 2
Both are correct. The Declaration lists cooperation through IFC-IOR and the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness, and exploring a new Joint Staffs dialogue framework, among other measures.
Consider the following statements about the outcomes of PM Modi's visit to Japan (29 August 2025): 1. A Memorandum of Cooperation on the Joint Crediting Mechanism was signed to diffuse decarbonising technologies. 2. The Joint Vision for the Next Decade lays out five lines of effort. Which of the above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: A — 1 only
Statement 1 is correct. Statement 2 is wrong: the Joint Vision lays out eight lines of effort (economic partnership, economic security, mobility, ecological sustainability, technology and innovation, health, people-to-people and state-prefecture engagement).