{"id":77611,"date":"2026-08-20T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/77611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:44:07","slug":"japan-defence-minister-shinjiro-koizumi-meets-pm-modi-discusses-stronger-security-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/77611\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi meets PM Modi, discusses stronger security ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the meeting, PM Modi emphasised the importance of closer India-Japan defence and security ties in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond <\/p>\n<p class=\"forfirstp\">Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his official visit to India, with discussions focusing on strengthening defence and security cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to PTI, citing a statement by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO), PM Modi outlined his vision for further deepening the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Japan&#8217;s Minister of Defence Shinjiro Koizumi, who is on an official visit to India, called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi today,&#8221; the PMO said.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, PM Modi recalled his discussions with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during her visit to India for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit in July 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also welcomed the steady momentum in defence cooperation between New Delhi and Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>PM Modi emphasised the importance of closer India-Japan defence and security ties in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in a post on X, the prime minister said he was pleased to receive Defence Minister of Japan Shinjiro Koizumi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad an excellent conversation on deepening defence and security ties between India and Japan. Our Special Strategic and Global Partnership is an important anchor for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and beyond,\u201d PM Modi said.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.firstpost.com\/dlxczavtqcctuei\/news18\/static\/images\/fp\/revamp_v1\/earth.svg\" alt=\"world\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" class=\"nvicsvg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>More from World<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister outlined opportunities for Japan to partner with Indian companies and start-ups in the defence sector, particularly for co-development and co-production under &#8216;Make in India&#8217; initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Koizumi briefed the prime minister about the progress in bilateral defence cooperation and reaffirmed the government of Japan&#8217;s continued commitment towards deepening ties with India, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>With inputs from agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the meeting, PM Modi emphasised the importance of closer India-Japan defence and security ties in promoting peace,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34939,49755,31840,34813,1180,8,24678,32787,17,8804,2311,34925],"class_list":["post-77611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-india-japan-defence-cooperation","tag-india-japan-security-ties","tag-india-japan-summit","tag-india-japan-ties","tag-indo-pacific","tag-japan","tag-japan-defence-minister","tag-japan-india-relations","tag-japanese","tag-narendra-modi","tag-shinjiro-koizumi","tag-special-strategic-and-global-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}