Chief minister Nitish Kumar and his team Bihar completed their four-day tour of Japan on Thursday and took the flight back home. The picture shows Nitish waiting with Indian ambassador to Japan Sujan R. Chinoy at a lounge of Tokyo International Airport.

The chief minister and his officials will reach New Delhi a little after midnight and catch a flight to Patna on Friday afternoon. During the tour, Nitish, road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav, and senior government officials addressed an investors' summit in Tokyo to showcase opportunities in the state and attract entrepreneurs to invest as well as set up facilities here.

Various one-to-one meetings with senior Japanese ministers and officials have brought hope of large-scale investments in roads, transport, tourism, food processing and agriculture. Text by Dev Raj, Telegraph picture