All India Conference on Promotion of Japanese Language Education held in New Delhi

All India Conference on Promotion of Japanese Language Education was held on 28 February 2006 in New Delhi New Delhi: 24 February 2006

Japan-India relations have been flourishing in recent years, and have especially intensified in the political and economic fields. However, the potential for people-to-people contacts, which is one of the basic pillars of our bilateral relations, has not yet been fully tapped. Thus, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan, and Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, agreed to increase the number of Japanese language learners in India up to 30,000 by the year 2010, and the introduction of Japanese language as an optional foreign language in Indian Secondary School Curriculum, as a part of the Eight-fold Initiative for strengthening Japan-India Global Partnership, agreed at the Japan-India Summit in April 2005.

Towards this direction, the Embassy of Japan in New Delhi, in association with the Japan Foundation New Delhi office, is organizing an “All India Conference on Promotion of Japanese Language Education” on 28 February 2006 in New Delhi. The purpose of this Conference is to understand the present status and the bottlenecks of Japanese language learning in India and, based upon these understandings, to discuss about means to remove them and further promote Japanese language education.


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