Mumbai, December 29: Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama today held discussions with the industrial doyens of India to further the economic and commercial relations between the two countries and to take the strategic Indo-Japanese relations to a new high.
Mr Hatoyama, making his first visit to India after he took over the reins of Japan in September, arrived here yesterday. He would be in New Delhi this afternoon, where he would hold a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Hyderabad House tomorrow.
Mr Hatoyama, who had earlier visited the country in 2002 as a Leader of the Opposition, had already met Dr Singh on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in September and at the ASEAN meeting in Thailand in October.
Eminent industrialists Ratan Tata of the Tata Group and Mukesh Ambani of the Reliance Industries Limited called upon the JapanesePrime Minister at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel this
morning. Later, he addressed top notch industrialists of the country at a meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
–Agencies