India, Japan to celebrate 2007 as friendship year

India and Japan on Thursday decided to celebrate the year 2007 as the India-Japan friendship and exchange year.

India and Japan on Thursday decided to celebrate the year 2007 as the India-Japan friendship and exchange year.

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Tourism ministry officials said that the two countries would start an eight-fold initiative to boost tourism between the two countries.

They said that Indian and Japanese people had great interest in visiting each other's country and initiatives would be taken to ensure easy visa facilitation for them.