PMO to hold dedicated Japan Business Week: PM Narendra Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) will organise a dedicated Japan Business Week to further improve the ease of doing business for Japanese business firms, even as he highlighted the country's emergence as a global manufacturing and export hub for the automobile sector.

The announcement was made during India-Japan Joint Economic Forum, where Modi and Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi jointly inaugurated Maruti Suzuki's fourth vehicle manufacturing facility at Kharkhoda in Haryana.

Modi said senior PMO officials would engage directly with Japanese businesses during Japan Business Week to understand their concerns and identify ways to further improve the investment climate. Referring to the growing economic partnership, Modi noted that several Japanese companies have maintained a presence in India for decades, with some operating in the country for more than a century.