Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi is on a four-day(October 14-17) visit to Japan with an aim to bolster defence cooperation between the two countries.

Key Points

• The Army chief will also visit Hiroshima, wherein he will lay a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Park and pay floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his statue at the Peace Park.
• The visit marks a "significant step in bolstering defence cooperation between India and Japan," the defence ministry said in a statement here.
• Gen Dwivedi will interact with Sibi George, India's Ambassador to Japan and would thereafter engage in a discussion on India-Japan relations at the Embassy of India in Tokyo.
• He will engage in dialogue with the senior military leadership of Japan at the defence ministry in Ichigaya on Tuesday (15 October 2024). 
• During his visit, the Army chief will hold meetings with Gen Yoshida Yoshihide, Chief of Staff, Joint Self Defence Force; Gen Morishita Yasunori, Chief of Staff, Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF); Ishikawa Takeshi, Commissioner of Acquisition, Technology and Logistic Agency (ATLA)