PM Modi reaches out to people of Japan, tweets in Japanese

New Delhi, Aug 28: Prime Minister

on Thursday put out a series of tweets in

and said that as his friends from Japan had asked him to talk to the people of Japan directly, he did so.

"Friends from Japan asked me to talk to the people of Japan directly in Japanese. I also thank them for helping with the the translation," Modi said in a tweet after his series of tweets in Japanese.

Friends from Japan asked me to talk to the people of Japan directly in Japanese. I also thank them for helping with the the translation.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 28, 2014

One of the tweet in Japanese is addressed to Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.

私は８月３０日から日本を訪問する。印日関係を強化するこの訪問を、とても楽しみにしている。@AbeShinzo

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 28, 2014

Modi is scheduled to visit Japan from Aug 30 to Sep 3. Earlier this week, Modi had tweeted saying that he was excited to meet Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and even said that great respect for Shinzo's leadership.

IANS