India, Aug. 29 -- Indian PM Narendra Modi on Friday arrived in Japan to deepen existing partnerships and explore new avenues of collaboration, including in Artificial Intelligence and semiconductors.

After arriving in Japan, Modi wrote on X: "Landed in Tokyo. As India and Japan continue to strengthen their developmental cooperation, I look forward to engaging with PM Ishiba and others during this visit, thus providing an opportunity to deepen existing partnerships and explore new avenues of collaboration."

The trip is marking Modi's first standalone visit to Japan in seven years.

He will be meeting Ishiba for the first time for a bilateral summit.

The Indian PM last attended the India-Japan Annual Summit in 2018.

"We would endeavour ...