Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated Japan for achieving its first soft landing on the moon and said that India is looking forward to the cooperation between the space organisations of the two countries. Japan became only the fifth nation to successfully complete the soft landing on the moon in the late hours of Saturday.

Taking to social media platform X, PM Modi said, "Congratulations Prime Minister @Kishida230 and everyone at JAXA on achieving Japan's first soft Moon landing. India looks forward to our cooperation in space exploration between @isro and JAXA". PM Modi shared the post of his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida who had congratulated everyone involved in the mission for the successful landing of the 'Slim' on the moon.