Sheikh Hasina would visit Japan from May 25 to May 28 at the invitation of her counterpart Shinzo Abe.
It would be her first official visit to any country after she returned power for the second successive term through the much-debated Jan 5 elections.
According to the PM’s office, Hasina would leave Dhaka on May 24.
The foreign ministry said she would hold ‘Summit Talks’ with her counterpart and would have an audience with the Emperor of Japan, among other engagements.
The foreign ministry said she would address a business seminar to attract foreign direct investment in Bangladesh and promote bilateral trade between the two countries.
She will also address the students of Waseda University in Tokyo.
Earlier, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said soliciting Japanese investment in the power sector would top the priority list of the Prime Minister’s visit.
He had said Bangladesh would seek “necessary investment” for 2000 MW electricity on an “urgent basis”.
He had also said that investments for a special economic zone, where at least 2500 industrial units can be housed, and river dredging would also be sought.
Japan, an US ally that called for fresh elections as the opposition BNP boycotted the polls, was also critical of the elections in which more than half the seats were won uncontested.
But after the elections, Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida was the first among the foreign ministers to visit Dhaka in March.
During his visit, Kishida said Japan looked forward to a “comprehensive partnership” with Bangladesh.
He also conveyed Prime Minister Sinze Abe’s invitation to Hasina.
Japan, which established diplomatic ties with Bangladesh in February 1972, is the country’s biggest bilateral development partner.
Its assistance comes regularly as grant, aid, technical assistance and soft loan. The total grants and aid reached $11 billion last year.
It has already promised a loan of 120 billion Yen ($1.18 billion) in the next fiscal for five projects, mostly in the energy and city development sectors.
Hasina last visited Japan in 2010 while the last visit of any Japanese prime minister to Bangladesh came in 2000.