What happened: Piyush Goyal invites deeper Japanese investment in India, with Uttar Pradesh focus
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal invited Japanese businesses to deepen investments and partnerships in India while speaking at a dinner hosted by the Government of Uttar Pradesh for a Japanese delegation in New Delhi. The event also included Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Piyush Goyal presented India–Japan cooperation as a strategic and growing partnership and connected it to India’s domestic transformation priorities and Uttar Pradesh’s economic ambitions.
What Piyush Goyal said on bilateral direction and priority sectors
Piyush Goyal described India and Japan as sharing an enduring partnership in the Indo-Pacific and noted that the presence of a delegation from Yamanashi Prefecture shows deeper bilateral reach into India’s States and regions.
He linked the partnership to the seven streams of national transformation described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi—manufacturing; agriculture; technology; infrastructure; energy and defence; green and blue economy; and India’s civilisational soft power. He argued these areas are where India and Japan’s strengths can complement each other.