WELCOME TO INDIA JAPAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER

　*President S.K.DASH Message*
India-Japan Friendship Center is a non-government, non-political and non-profit making voluntary organization primarily aims at identifying areas of convergence for mutual cooperation and brotherhood between the two countries in a constructive manner, contributing to the advancement of overall bilateral relations. It further reaffirms its determination to strengthen cooperation and coordination between India and Japan for comprehensive reforms at grass-root level.


To harness social, cultural and secular values of India and Japan through mutual understanding, fellow-feeling and interacting with each other in cordial and reciprocal manner at grass-root level to foster friendship driven by converging long-term social, economic and strategic interests, aspirations and concerns and underpinned by a common commitment to democracy, open society, human rights, rule of law, and free market economy based on deep respect for each other's contributions in promoting peace, stability and harmony through comprehensive economic engagement, scientific experiment and research, greater technological cooperation as well as working towards a quantum increase in cultural ties, tourism packages, educational linkages and people-to-people contacts to harness the vast potential of bilateral relations between Indian and Japan, as the two largest and most developed democracies of Asia, with a mutual stake to each other's progress and prosperity.
We should put the best of our endeavour to facilitate ties between people, or people to people exchanges which are of vital importance, in addition to political and economic relations. The Japanese and Indian people share ancient bonds and a proud civilizational heritage, and thus, have a large potential to deepen their interaction.


Japan & India have been cultivating their friendship through a long cherished history. It is well known that an Indian Buddhist priest, Bodhisena, inaugurated the Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple in Japan in the 8th Century. Indian & Japanese people bear vivid memories of their friendship and frequent interchange between the greatest Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese thinker, Tenshin Okakura, and of the stormy lives of Ras Bihari Bose and Subhas Chandra Bose who tought for the Independence of India and the then Japanese support to turn the dream a reality. Adequate access shall be accelerated to inculcate these emotional attachments & bindings.


Our economies are highly complementary to each other. Japan has an advantage in hardware, on the other hand, while India is well known for its software expertise, on the other. Let's have an initiation to boost the commerce of both the countries.
Both the countries articulated the shared conviction that this partnership must be based on the foundations of close people to people links to help elevate our traditionally friendly and co-operative ties to a higher level. Intuitive initiatives shall contribute substantially to this noble objective.


To reduce the communication gap to a formidable extent schools and other educational institutes shall be adopted to introduce Japanese language in Orissa & other states of India as a language linkage between the two countries we are a step ahead, introducing Japanese language in Chandra Sekhar Academy at Balighai, Puri, Orissa since 2004. Besides education, we organize traditional & cultural programmes to attract Indian & Japanese classical and folk artists to perform stage shows in both the countries. A cultural amity can be ensured. Let's have amazing vacations amidst tourists of either of the countries and participate in programmes like "Japan yr. in India" and "Indian Festivals in Japan". Let's have more & more celebrations and participations.


A 24 hour, round-the-clock help-line has been organized by India-Japan Friendship Center to extend its friendly help & support for any kind of enquiries, queries, problems, disadvantages of the Japanese tourists, during their stay in India. Retirement tips, guidelines and in time help shall make them feel at home & boost the traditional heritage of Orissa that "a friend in need is a friend in deed". Besides that, India-Japan, Friendship Center also works as an information centre for the native Indians who intends to go Japan in Business, studies, traveling, research work etc.


These are the fundamental steps in promoting mutual understanding and appreciation of each others cultures & civilizations. We are hopeful with these type of initiations to convey a picture of two dynamic and friendly countries which are fast growing economies as well as knowledge & cultural hubs, and which have emerged as pillars of strength in Asia as well as the rest of the World. The ties of friendship that India & Japan share are deep and have historical roots.


India - Japan Friendship Center works as a grass-root ambassador to foster and facilitate social upliftment of the common mass through its innovative involvements in the field of education, technology, agriculture, export/ import, social forestry, fishery, tourism, culture and benevolent works like old age home, orphanage, free boarding schools, safe drinking water & sanitation, health care, primary education & adult literacy, poverty alleviation, women's empowerment, child welfare including support for street children and elimination of child labour, support for persons with disabilities, preservation of environment and other kinds of social works that deems suitable to match the all round growth & development of both the countries & its people.


Let's celebrate, admire & feel the essence of spiritual strength & enlightment that Lord Buddha is the tenth incarnation of Lord Jagannath which unities the spiritual bond between the two sacred nations to empower its people in a more juvenile, radical & envigourous way to reach their destination and attainment to a higher level through amity, unity & integrity.

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■在インド日本大使館(EMBASSY OF JAPAN)
　
　◇外務省（The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan）

■在日インド大使館(EMBASSY OF INDIA)
　
　◇インド政府観光局(INCREDIBLE !NDIA)

■インド貿易振興局(INDIA TRADE PROMOTION )
　
　◇エアーインディア(AIR INDIA)

■インド銀行(BANK OF INDIA)
　
　◇ステイトバンクオブインディア (STATE BANK OF INDIA)

■日本貿易振興機構（JETRO）

　◇国際連合　工業開発機関（UNIDO）

■国際協力機構(JICA)

　◇国際交流基金(JAPAN FOUNDATION)　

■ＮＰＯ法人インド日本友の会:IJFC

　◇NGOインド日本交流センター（IJFC）

■チャンドラ・セカール・アカデミー学校（CHANDRA SEKHAR ACADEMY）
　　日本語教育を取り入れた学校(JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL ORISSA)

　◇インド公式ウェブサイト(GOVERNMENT OF INDIA)
　
■オリッサ州政府ウェブサイト(GOVERNMENT OF ORISSA)

　◇オリッサの新聞やニュース（Orissa Media Links Newspapers）

■オリッサ日本人会(Orissa Japanese Association)

　◇インド日本友の会（India Japan Friendship Club）

■タキイ種苗株式会社（TAKII SEED）
　
　◇株式会社　クボタ(Kubota: Agriculture machinery)

■株式会社　サタケ(SATAKE: rice wheat milling machine)

■Orissa Economic Development


　
　Srendranath Naik Minister of Agriculture Japan Schedule 2008

India Japan Friendship Year in Orissa （2007日印交流年　オリッサにて）