To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising Sun
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun his four-day bilateral visit to Japan seeking to deepen ties with the world's third largest economy.
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To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising SunPrime Minister Narendra Modi is on a four day tour of Japan. He is seeking to build deeper ties between the two Asian economic giants. In a special gesture, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flew down to Kyoto to personally greet Mr Modi. In the following pictures, we present the highlights of his visit to Japan so far.
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To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising SunOn his third day in Japan Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Japanese school children at a 136-year-old school in Tokyo. He was given a presentation on Japan's education system.
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To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising SunPrime Minister Narendra Modi recognized a woman, Mina Chudgar, who had cooked a proper Gujarati vegetarian meal for him seven years ago. Ms Chudgar was waiting in crowd to catch a glimpse of the Prime Minister, when he spotted her. He went up to talk to her for a few moments and also posed for pictures with an ecstatic Ms Chudgar.
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To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising SunPrime Minister Narendra Modi is welcomed by Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who is also director of the centre for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) of Kyoto University at the CiRA in Kyoto,
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To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising SunPrime Minister Modi talking with the Head Priest of the Kinkakuji Temple Yasu Nagamori in Kyoto, Japan. The Prime Minister reportedly greeted the priest with "I am Modi and you are Mori!"
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To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising SunPM Modi greets the mayor of Kyoto, Kadokawa Daisaku as the Japanese PM Shinzo Abe looks on. Mr Modi signed an agreement between the cities of Kyoto and Varanasi. Mr. Modi represents the Varanasi constituency in the Indian Parliament.