Kobe, Jun 27 In a boost to bilateral ties and announcing enhanced cooperation on developmental front a Letter of Intent was exchanged here on Thursday by Indian officials and the authorities from the Japanese city of Kobe for a major project in Ahmedabad.
"Strengthening people-to-people ties. PM Narendra Modi witnessed the exchange of Letter of Intent on Ahmedabad-Kobe Sister City Partnership at Kobe," MEA spokesman Raveesh Kumar tweeted.
Mr Modi also addressed a function organised by the Indian community here.PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe had inked a 'sister-state relationship MoU for Gujarat and Hyogo prefecture in In November 2016.
Kobe is the capital city of Hyogo. Prime Minister had also visited a bullet train plant in Kobe in 2016.
The MoU sought to promote mutual cooperation between Gujarat and Hyogo in the fields of academics, business, cultural cooperation, disaster management and environmental protection.Mr Modi is in Japan to attend the G20 Summit to be held at Osaka from Friday.
India is planning to run its first bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The stone laying ceremony was held on September 14, 2017 in Ahmedabad by both the Prime Ministers Modi and Shinzo Abe.
Government sources said the first stretch of the ambitious project is expected to be completed by 2022.
Civil construction of the corridor was expected to begin by 2018 and the project was scheduled to be completed in 2023.
The deadline was advanced to have the bullet train go on its first run on August 15, 2022 on the occasion of India's 75th Independence day.
All geo-technical surveys and tests under the sea bed for the underground section were completed by December 2017, officials say.
'Bharat Mata ki jai' and 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans greet Modi: PM pledges digital infra works
Kobe (Japan), Jun 27 (UNI) Amid 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' slogans, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the ever enthusiastic and jubilant Indian community here that in the next five years, his priority would be to make India a five-trillion dollar economy and lay more emphasis on digital infrastructures.
"In the next five years, our government's target will be to make India a five-trillion dollar economy. Social sector will continue to get high priority. Also we will focus more on infrastructure development, and especially digital infrastructures," Prime Minister said addressing a Indian community event in Hyogo Perfecture Guest House in Kobe.
Mr Modi arrived here on a three-day visit for the G20 Summit wherein he would have a series of bilateral meetings including with US President Donald Trump.
He said the bilateral strategic ties between India and Japan will become more robust as his government has set a target to make India be a USD 5 trillion economy in the next five years.
Prime Minister lauded the Japanese spirit of commitment to nationhood and how best the human talent and technology could be utilized for the betterment of all.
"It is my fourth visit to Japan....and in Japan I have seen the living experience of one's commitment to civilisational values and how best the talent and technology could be used," the Prime Minister said.
Emphasising that over the decades how things have moved faster, Mr Modi said there was a time when two countries cooperated for making cars and today India and Japan are cooperating for making of bullet trains.
"Ek samay tha jab hum car bananey mein sahyog kar rahe they....aaj hum bullet train banaey mein sahyog kar rahen haen," the Prime Minister said in reference to cooperation in automobile sector launched in 1970s.
"Today there is no part of India left where there is no trace of Japanese projects and investments," Mr Modi said and went onto add that the talent and manpower of India are contributing to strengthening Japan and adding to its progress and prosperity.
"The mission to Moon, Chandrayan-II, will be launched soon. By 2022, India will also launch its first manned mission 'Gaganyaan'," Prime Minister said amid applause.
Noting that Japan has been a partner in India's development for decades, the Prime Minister said Tokyo will have a major role to play in the building of a "new India".
He said India is planning to explore the space and the possibility of having the country's own space station. Earlier in the day, he held crucial round of bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others. Briefing reporters after the talks, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said the during interaction Mr Abe referred to the "need to find appropriate situations" for global trade and data flows.
Mr Abe felt that the G20 should come up with a very constructive message on the issue of climate change, Mr Gokhale said. "Prime Minister Abe initially began (during the talks) with the expectations from the G20 meeting, he spoke about the importance of focusing on the global economy," Foreign Secretary said.
Mr Abe also referred specifically to Prime Minister Modi’s initiative at earlier G20 meetings on the issue of fugitive economic offenders and said that the G20 should deal with this problem as part of the anti-corruption measures.
Indian diaspora in Japan endorses 2019 poll results as 'win for honesty': PM Modi
Kobe/Osaka (Japan), Jun 27 Indian diaspora in Japan have described recently held parliamentary polls in India as a 'win for honesty and truth', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday at a community function at Obe in Japan.
"Outcome of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls has caused immense happiness among the Indian diaspora.
At the community programme, I asked those who had gathered- the win in 2019 is whose win?
They promptly replied- it is a win for honesty. Their answer was very pleasing," Prime Minister later tweeted along with the video footage of his speech.
In his address, Prime Minister said one feels happy when Indians in Japan are saying that the election results in India was 'outcome of sachai'.
"Jab mein aapse yeh jawab sunta hoon toh kitna accha lagta hae. Yeh sachai ki jeet hae (When I hear from you all that it was a win for honesty and truth, I feel very happy)," Prime Minister said gesturing his closed fist.
Prime Minister is in Japan to participate at the G20 Summit and will also have a series of multi lateral and bilateral engagements with top world leaders including the US President Donald Trump on Friday at Osaka.
Mr Modi held bilateral talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Thursday at Osaka.
Prime Minister will be engaged in high level diplomatic engagements with about ten global leaders including the likes US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Sources in the Indian government indicated that Mr Modi is likely to hold bilateral talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and also participate at the trilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping under the RIC arrangements on Friday.
He will also meet Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and also Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Sources said BRICS leaders would also meet separately during the two-day Summit and Mr Modi and Mr Trump would also participate at the Japan-America-India (JAI) trilaterals with Japanese Prime Minister Abe.
There would be also pull aside meetings with President of World Bank Group David Malpass, Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Thailand Prime Minister General Prayat Chan-o-cha.
During Thursday's talks with Mr Abe, Prime Minister Modi also sought Japan's assistance in building disaster resilient infrastructure.
"We will be approaching other leaders as Prime Minister meets them in the Summit and the intention is actually to launch this (global disaster management) sometime later in the year. Precise details will obviously be given later," Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told reporters later.
Japan has shown how civilisational values and tech can go together: PM Modi
Osaka (Japan), Jun 27 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded the Japanese spirit of commitment to nationhood and how best the human talent and technology could be utilised for the betterment of all.
"It is my fourth visit to Japan....and in Japan I have seen the living experience of one's commitment to civilisational values and how best the talent and technology could be used," the Prime Minister said in his address to the Indian community here.
Mr Modi arrived here on a three-day visit for the G20 Summit wherein he would have a series of bilateral meetings including with US President Donald Trump.
"In every journey of mine to Japan, I have experienced a sense of brotherhood between the people of two countries," he said.
Emphasising that over the decades how things have moved faster, Mr Modi said there was a time when two countries cooperated for making cars and today India and Japan are cooperating for making of bullet trains.
"Ek samay tha jab hum car bananey mein sahyog kar rahe they....aaj hum bullet train banaey mein sahyog kar rahen haen," the Prime Minister said in reference to cooperation in automobile sector launched in 1970s.
"Today there is no part of India left where there is no trace of Japanese projects and investments," Mr Modi said and also pointed out that India's manpower and talent are thus contributing in help Japan attain progress and prosperity also.
In reference to his personal rapport with Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister recalled Japanese PM accompanying him to Varanasi and participating at the 'Ganga Arati'.
"That image of Japanese Prime Minister remains fresh in people's mind," Mr Modi said.
He said there are some similarities between the manner people of the two countries speak - Like Indians say 'Dhyan', Japanese people say 'Zen'.
"Whenever we speak of friends of India in global context, the name of Japan would definitely come in," the Prime Minister said.
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