India, Aug. 28 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday night departed from New Delhi for Japan to attend the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit, from where he will travel to China.

The tour eastwards comes as India has been hit by a massive 50 per cent tariff rate by the US, half of which is imposed as "penalty" for buying oil from Russia, whose President Vladimir Putin will also be there for the summit in China.

In the first leg, PM Modi is on a two-day visit to Japan at the invitation of his counterpart Shigeru Ishiba. This will be PM Modi's eighth visit to Japan and the first summit with Ishiba. "During my visit, we would focus on shaping the next phase in our Special Strategic and Global Partnership, which has made steady and signif...