India, Japan officials meet, discuss PM’s visit, bullet train project

Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan next month, Foreign Minister Vikram Misri met with Japanese Deputy Minister Funakoshi Taking in Delhi on 28 July 2025 Monday.

It is understood that both sides discussed the latest developments in the Shinkansen Bullet train project, including Ahmedabad (Sabarmati) and Mumbai’s decision of Japan. Japan Times Earlier this year, to give two of the latest E-10 Shinkansen trains that will be introduced simultaneously in Japan and India.

According to the last program described in a parliament response by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav last week, the Gujarat part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed railway will be completed until 2027 and the entire project to be held in 2022 is expected to be completed by December 2029.

During his visit to Delhi, Mr. Funakoshi met with Prime Minister PK Mishra to discuss Mr. Modi’s travel plans.

“Dialogue was effective in reviewing the progress of various dimensions of our ties, discovering new fields of cooperation, and contributing to the deepening of friendship and cooperation between India and Japan,” he said. Haydarabad House.

In addition, officials on both sides discuss the problems related to the shortage of critical minerals required for batteries for battery electric vehicles produced by Japanese manufacturers due to export restrictions from China. According to sources, companies such as Suzuki and Toyota have been particularly affected as they affect the lower cost of Chinese materials required for home cars produced in India. In the long run, resources, India and Japan here are considering their cooperation for the development of rare soil materials and other third countries, such as Vietnam.

India and Japan have an annual binary summit, an annual binary summit, which was issued from a rail in 2024 due to elections and contradictory programs in both countries, and the visit has been issued several times so far. Although a date for Mr. Modi for his visit to Japan has not yet been announced, it is expected to be held in the second half of August. In addition, the authorities are expected to go to China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on 31 August-1 September, although two visits will be merged.

“Considering the visit of Prime Minister Modi to Japan this year, the two sides confirmed that Japan and India will strengthen bilateral relations in a wide range of fields such as security, economy and human-human stock exchange, taking into account the visit of Prime Minister Modi to this year. He said. “They also confirmed that both countries will cooperate more with each other, including the quadruple framework. [Japan-Australia-India-U.S.] “Free and open Indo-Pacific” added to realize.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Arnavutu, together with the Arnavutu of this year, is probably expected to visit India in mid -November.

MEA confirmed the increasing importance of India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership for peace, prosperity and stability in and beyond the Indo-Pacific region and its counterpart, during the dialogue, Mea said.

(With inputs from Maitri Porecha)