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Our Profile : The Indo-Japan Welfare and Cultural Association (IJWCA), located in a posh
locality of Kolkata (Calcutta), with its own three two-storied buildings inherited from the
Seaman's Employment Center of Japan for promoting cultural relations between India and
Japan and also for the welfare of the Indian people.

Our Sub-organizations, which are directly supported by us:
1) The Centre of Japanese Studies
2) The Indo-Japan Language Studies Society

Our Associate Organizations:
1) Ikenobo Calcutta Chapter of the Ikenobo Floral Art Society, Kyoto.
2) Eastern India Japanese Language Teachers' Association.


Our Main Activities:
1) Japanese Language Teaching.
2) Teaching Japanology (Japan's Cultural History for general students
and research students for Ph.D. of any university).
3) Extending library / Reading Room facilities to the Japanese language course
students and persons interested in Japan.
4) Holding Cultural functions either independently or in association with the
Consulate-General of Japan.
5) We are the host organization for holding Japanese Language Proficiency Test
(Noryoku shiken) from 1998.for eastern India.
6) Eastern India Japanese Language Speech Contest.
7) Hosting Seminars on Japanese Language Teaching sponsored by The Japan Foundation
and supported by the Consulate-General of Japan.
8) Holding different other functions - Japanese language and culture-oriented ones.
9) For the first time in India, we organized "Japanese Language Prose Reading Contest"
(Eastern India).
10 We encourage study and publication of articles on subjects related to japanese language and literature.
(* as example see our last page).