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The Japan-India relations have been flourishing in recent years, and have especially intensified in the political and economic arena. However, the potential for people-to-people contacts, which is one of the basic pillars of our bilateral relations, has not been fully tapped. During Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to India in 2005, Mr. Koizumi and Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, agreed to increase the number of Japanese language students in India up to 30,000 by the year 2010, and introduce Japanese language as an optional foreign language in Indian Secondary School Curriculum, as part of the Eight-fold Initiative for strengthening Japan-India Global Partnership, agreed at the Japan-India Summit in April 2005.
In this connection, the Embassy of Japan in New Delhi, in association with the Japan Foundation New Delhi office, is organizing the “2nd All India Conference on Promotion of Japanese Language Education” on May 18, 2007, at the official residence of the Ambassador of Japan in New Delhi. The purpose of this Conference is to understand the present status and the difficulties of Japanese language learning in India and, based upon these understandings, to discuss about means to remove them and further promote Japanese language education.
The detailed agenda
of the Conference, along with major themes of discussion and the names of main speakers in the Conference, are attached herewith.
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