Overview

• Tokyo and New Delhi set a five‑year target to expand people‑to‑people exchanges to 500,000, with Japan aiming to accept 50,000 Indian professionals in fields such as IT.
• The countries launched an Economic Security Cooperation Initiative to bolster stable supplies of critical minerals and semiconductors.
• An AI Cooperation Initiative was created to deepen collaboration on advanced technologies beyond existing industrial ties.
• The 2008 security cooperation declaration was revised to enable work toward co‑development of defense equipment, and the joint statement voiced serious concern over the East and South China Seas.
• Leaders agreed to introduce JR East’s new E10‑series trains on India’s high‑speed rail in the early 2030s and to adopt a bilateral carbon credit scheme under the Joint Crediting Mechanism.