UP offers skills, scale & infra, says Yogi Adityanath urging Japan to make it 'second biz home'

New Delhi: Speaking at the Uttar Pradesh-Japan Investment Meet 2026 held in New Delhi on Thursday, chief minister Yogi Adityanath invited Japanese companies to invest in UP and make it their "second industrial home". He told them that this is the most appropriate time to transform the strategic India-Japan vision into a concrete economic and industrial partnership between UP and Japanese industry in investment, innovation, manufacturing, and technology.

Apart from the CM Yogi, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture Governor Kotaro Nagasaki, along with senior officials, industrialists, investors, CEOs, and business representatives from India and Japan participated in the function.

According to the UP government, more than 200 Japanese industrialists, CEOs, business representatives, and policymakers were present at the UP-Japan Investment meet beginning today. The Investment meet, which will be organized in Delhi and UP, will end on August 23.


Japanese companies were given information about the investment opportunities in UP in various sectors, including advanced technology, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electric mobility, semiconductors, automobile components, digital infrastructure, skill development, agritech, and tourism, in UP.

Addressing the inaugural session of UP-Japan Investment Meet 2026, CM Yogi termed Japan as the 'Land of the Rising Sun', while describing UP as the 'Land of the Suryavansh'. "Japan has decades of industrial experience, quality, technology, and manufacturing excellence, while UP has a young workforce, skills, a large market, strong infrastructure and better law and order," he told the gathering.

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the benefits of India-Japan partnership should not be limited to industry and investment, but should also reach farmers, youth, and the rural economy.