Ahmedabad [Gujarat], September 4 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday visited the Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) in Ahmedabad.
Taking to Twitter, Jaishankar stated, “Happy to visit the Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at AMA in Ahmedabad. Inaugurated by PM @narendramodi last year, it is a fitting tribute to the close friendship between India and Japan.”On June 27, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy through video convention and elaborated on his imaginative and prescient of making a ‘Mini-Japan’ in Gujarat.
According to a launch by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi talked of Japan’s enthusiastic participation within the ‘Vibrant Gujarat Summit’ through the years. He stated greater than 135 firms, starting from car, and banking to development and pharma, have made Gujarat their base. Companies like Suzuki Motors, Honda Motorcycle, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Hitachi are concerned in manufacturing in Gujarat.
“They are contributing skill development of the local youth. In Gujarat, three Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing is giving skill training to hundreds of youth with the tie-up with technical universities and IITs. Furthermore, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO’s) Ahmedabad Business Support Centre is providing plug and play work-space facility to up to five companies simultaneously. Many Japanese companies are being benefitted by this,” stated PM Modi.
He additionally praised the Indo-Japan Friendship Association of Gujarat for giving new vitality to India-Japan relations.
Pointing to the similarities between ‘Zen’ and Indian ‘Dhyan’, PM Modi dwelled on the emphasis on internal peace together with outer progress and progress within the two cultures.
“Indians will find a glimpse of the same peace, poise, and simplicity in this Zen garden, which they experienced in Yoga through the ages. Buddha gave this ‘Dhyan’ this enlightenment to the world”, PM Modi.
The friendship between India and Japan has a protracted historical past rooted in non secular affinity and robust cultural and civilizational ties.
Economic relations between India and Japan have huge potential for progress, given the complementarities that exist between the 2 Asian economies. Japan’s curiosity in India is growing as a result of a wide range of causes together with India’s giant and rising market and its assets, particularly human assets. The India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that got here into power in August 2011 is essentially the most complete of all such agreements concluded by India and covers not solely commerce in items but additionally providers, motion of pure individuals, investments, mental property rights, customs procedures and different commerce associated points.
The CEPA envisages the abolition of tariffs on over 94 per cent of things traded between India and Japan over a interval of 10 years. (ANI)