New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will tonight embark on a two-day official visit to Japan beginning 29 August.

PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to leave for Tokyo from New Delhi around midnight on 28 August and arrive in Japan on 29 and 30 August for the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit with Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba.

"This will be PM Modi's first annual summit with his Japanese counterpart, and is first standalone visit to Japan in nearly seven years. He last visited for the annual summit in 2018," Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told reporters in New Delhi ahead of Narendra Modi's two-day visit.

Misri added that the visit will be fully dedicated to the bilateral agenda between the two countries. This will be PM Narendra ...