To Japan With Love: PM Narendra Modi's Visit To The Land of Rising Sun

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Prime 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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves as he gets ready to leave for Japan on the Air India One

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Mr Abe travelled to Kyoto as a special gesture to meet the Indian Prime Minister.

The two Prime Ministers feed fish in a special ceremony, a Japanese tradition thought to bring prosperity and good fortune.

PM 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.

PM Modi, Indian Ambassador to Japan Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Mayor of Kyoto Kadokawa Daisaku and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe pose with documents following a signing ceremony

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, center, wave in front of the five-story stupa at Toji Temple in Kyoto.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks along with Japanese Prime Minister and the head priest of Kinkakuji Temple Yasu Nagamori in Kyoto, Japan

Prime 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!"

The PMO tweeted this picture of the Prime Minister Modi at a luncheon hosted by the Kyoto Buddhist Association

 

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the Kinkaku-ji Temple in Kyoto.

Prime 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,

Japanese admirers pose with Indian Prime Minister in this picture tweeted by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.

 

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This Shows how popular Modi is in between Japanese.

 

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