Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan and China from August 29 to September 01, 2025, an official release said on Friday. He will participate in the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit and SCO summit in China during the visit. This will be Prime Minister Modi’s eighth visit to Japan, and the first Summit with Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba.
“At the invitation of the Prime Minister of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, PM Narendra Modi will visit Japan from 29-30 August 2025 to participate in the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit,” the release said.
“In the second leg of his visit, at the invitation of the President of China, Xi Jinping, Prime Minister will travel to China from 31 August to 1 September 2025 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin,” it added.
PM Modi’s Japan visit
In an official release, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba will review the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan.
This will include defence and security, trade and economy, technology and innovation, and people to people exchanges, as well as discuss issues of regional and global importance, the release added.
“The visit will reaffirm the longstanding special bond of friendship between the two countries,” the ministry added.
Modi to attend SCO summit, meet Xi
In a much-anticipated gathering, PM Modi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) summit meeting in Tianjin from August 31 – September 1. He will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi earlier this week extended Xi’s invite for the summit to PM Modi.
India has been a member of SCO since 2017. It held the presidency of the Council of Heads of State of SCO during 2022-23.
PM Modi’s meeting with Xi will be of crucial importance as both countries are witnessing a positive change in their ties, after five years of tensions post Galwan clash in May 2020.
On the trade front, both China and India have been targeted by US President Donald Trump who has imposed heavy tariffs on the two Asian countries. Beijing has backed India and called the US a “bully” for imposing heavy tariffs. It said that both India and China are two prospering economies, and together they can begin a “new chapter of elephant dragon tango.”