Japanese people in India

There is a small Japanese community in India (在インド日本人, Zai Indo Nihonjin) which consists mainly of expatriates from Japan or Indian-born people of Japanese ancestry.

Japanese people in India
在インド日本人
Zai Indo Nihonjin
Total population
9,197 (2017)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Chennai · Bangalore · Kolkata · Gurgaon · New Delhi
Languages
Indian Languages · English · Japanese
Religion
Buddhism · Shinto · Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Japanese diaspora

Settlement

Bangalore

In Bangalore, the Japanese community has increased by approximately 3000 in the last few years. The vast majority of the community works for Toyota Kirloskar, Honda, Fujitsu, Komatsu, Hitachi, Tsujikawa, Keihin, and 80 other Japanese corporates.[2] Bangalore attracts over 1800 Japanese business visitors every month.[3] The Karnataka government has announced to set up an industrial township on 1,000 acres of land outside Bangalore for Japanese manufacturers.[4] The growing Japanese influence in Bangalore is exemplified by students learning Japanese at the Department of Foreign Languages at Bangalore University. Bangalore has a Japanese-influenced Sakra World Hospital, a Kenkos store for lifestyle products, and the Japanese-friendly Trio World Academy.[5]

Japan Habba[6] (Japan Festival) has been held in Bangalore since 2005 and about 1,000 Japanese people from various parts of India travel to Bangalore to join in the festival.[7] Many Japanese restaurants exist in Bangalore, and some are owned by Japanese people.

Chennai

Chennai is home to the largest Japanese community in India around 6500 members. Chennai has traditionally respected and valued Japanese culture and discipline. As of 2015, around 577 Japanese companies are present in Chennai, which represents more than a third of the Japanese companies in India.[8] Japanese language centers have sprung up and American International School Chennai has opened a center that teaches the language; there are about 55 Japanese restaurants while hotels continue to add Japanese cuisine to their menus.[9] The Japanese influence in the city has resulted in a keen interest in the Japanese language among the people of Chennai, who learn it to better understand Japanese culture and the language's traditional linguistic similarity to Tamil, the official language of Tamil Nadu. Some also learn Japanese to explore new business opportunities. The Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IJCCI) aims to increase cultural competence between India and Japan. They regularly host Japanese cultural events to expose the Chennai community to an otherwise unknown culture. [10] Chennai has the largest number of JLPT test takers among the cities that offer the test in India.[11] [12]

The number of Japanese expatriates is expected to rise with the development of a 1500-acre Japanese township on the outskirts of Chennai.

Haldia

The Japanese community of Haldia is mostly engineers and top executives at Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation’s (MCC) PTA (Purified Terephthalic Acid) plant in the city. The community have been living in the mini Japanese township called Sataku (Japantown) for many years. Sataku has many Japanese restaurants and a local Japanese news station. Japanese movies are also shown in local theaters. Haldia is the only Indian city to have a Japantown.

The only problem for tourists to this Japantown is that it is not open to public. You need to be invited as a guest of one of the residents to gain entry to the complex. Also, the exact location is not available on Google Maps and not known to most locals or local traffic police.

The commissioning of the PTA plant and subsequent expansions have seen the arrival of many Japanese executives. While a few have returned, many stayed back in this quaint township, thousands of miles away from their home land. The next phase of expansion promises to bring in more Japanese expatriates to this new industrial hub in West Bengal.[13]

Gujarat

There were 321 Japanese establishments and 347 Japanese citizens residing in Gujarat as of March 2019.[14]

Education
Chennai
Bangalore
Kolkata (day and weekend)
Locations of Japanese international schools, day and supplementary, in India recognized by MEXT (gray dots represent closed schools)

List of Japanese international schools in India:

Supplementary programmes (hoshu jugyo ko or hoshuko):[15]

  • Japanese School of Bangalore (バンガロール日本人補習授業校 Bangarōru Nihonjin Hoshū Jugyō Kō)
  • Japanese School Educational Trust of Chennai (チェンナイ補習授業校 Chennai Hoshū Jugyō Kō)[16] - located at American International School Chennai, Taramani.[17] Established by the Japanese Association in Chennai (チェンナイ日本人会 Chennai Nihonjin Kai), it opened in June 1975 as the Japanese Class of Madras (マドラス日本語補習教室 Madorasu Nihongo Hoshū Kyōshitsu). In 1998 the school adopted the name Japanese Language School of Chennai (チェンナイ日本語補習校 Chennai Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō) since Madras took the name Chennai. The school moved to AIS Chennai in 2003. It adopted its current name in 2005 so it could register as a trust, as per the Trust Act.[18]

The Calcutta Japanese School (カルカタ日本人学校 Karukata Nihonjin Gakkō), a day school was established but not longer exists.[19] The hoshuko in Kolkata also closed.[20]

Notable people
gollark: I wonder what calculators actually designed in this century could be like. Probably just somewhat specialized tablets with low-powered CPUs and higher battery life.
gollark: Not that I'm much of a brainologist or something.
gollark: It might just be done on some more general-purpose higher-reasoning bit.
gollark: *Is* there one?
gollark: It would be quite useful, given that brains can do, I don't know, specific tasks like reading, pattern recognition, and that sort of thing pretty well, but are terrible at basic maths.

See also

References
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