India, Aug. 23 -- Indian PM Narendra Modi will visit Japan and China this month to attend the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit in Tokyo and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday.

Modi will be visiting Japan at the invitation of Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba.

He will visit Japan from August 29 and August 30.

"This will be Prime Minister Modi's eighth visit to Japan, and the first Summit with Prime Minister Ishiba," read the statement.

During the visit, the two Prime Ministers will review the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan, including defense and security, trade and economy, technology and innovation, and people to people exchanges, as w...