Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for home this morning after completing a five day visit to Japan.

Mr Modi has termed his Japan trip as very successful.

He said that Japan’s promise to invest 35 billion dollars is a great achievement for India.

The Prime Minister visited heritage city of Kyoto during his first leg of visit where India and Japan signed treaty to develop Varanasi on the line of Kyoto.

In the second leg of his visit to capital Tokyo, Mr. Modi held summit talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
A joint statement issued after the talks said that the two Prime Ministers reaffirmed the importance of defence relations between India and Japan in their strategic partnership and decided to upgrade and strengthen them.

During his visit, India and Japan also signed Tokyo Declaration for Special Strategic Global Partnership.
As per Tokyo Declaration, Japan announced to invest 2 lakh 10 thousand crore rupees in India in the next 5 years.

Later delivering key note address to the industrialists and entrepreneurs, the Prime Minister said that red carpet welcome will be given to Japanese industry leaders in India and there will not be hassles, He said that there is no red tape in India and many norms have been eased .

He said that Japan is famous for its hardware while India is famous for its software and can be mutually beneficial. He mesmerized the industry leaders with his straight from the heart approach. He visited several institutes and also held talks with several dignitaries including Emperor Akihito

Modi also met 99 years old, Saichiro Misumi, the oldest living associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Tokyo. Talking to AIR Correspondent, on the eve of Modi’s departure, Spokesman of the External Affairs ministry Syed Akbaruddin said that several issues were discussed during this visit.