NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi spoke for the primary time Wednesday, trying to advance the strategic partnership and agreeing that stronger India-Japan ties are important for world peace, stability and prosperity. Considerably, Takaichi underlined the importance of working collectively within the Indo-Pacific, together with by means of Quad, amid uncertainty over the following summit assembly of the grouping.Modi stated in a publish on X that they mentioned financial safety and defence cooperation. “Had a heat dialog with Sanae Takaichi, PM of Japan. Congratulated her on assuming workplace and mentioned our shared imaginative and prescient for advancing the India-Japan particular strategic and world partnership, with concentrate on financial safety, defence cooperation and expertise mobility. We agreed that stronger India-Japan ties are important for world peace, stability and prosperity,” he stated. The leaders spoke a day after US President Donald Trump’s assembly with Takaichi, the primary feminine chief of Japan, in Tokyo.In keeping with a Japanese readout Takaichi said “on the outset” that the 2 nations share elementary values and strategic pursuits and Japan intends to proceed to work collectively in the direction of realising a free and open Indo-Pacific together with by means of Japan-Australia-India-US (Quad).“Prime Minister Takaichi additionally said that, primarily based on the Japan-India joint imaginative and prescient for the following decade offered throughout PM Modi’s go to to Japan in Aug this 12 months, Japan will additional advance cooperation with India in a variety of fields, together with safety, economic system, funding, innovation, and people-to-people exchanges. She expressed her intention to work along with Prime Minister Modi to open a brand new golden chapter within the Japan-India particular strategic and world partnership,” stated a Japanese readout.“In response, PM Modi conveyed his heartfelt congratulations to PM Takaichi on her appointment, and stated that he’s happy to have the ability to converse together with her quickly after assuming workplace, and said that he appears to be like ahead to additional strengthening Japan-India relations by means of advancing concrete cooperation in numerous areas,” it added.