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West Bengal pivotal to Indo-Japan ties: Abe

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20070823
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Kolkata, Aug. 23 -- West Bengal is pivotal to the strong Indo-Japan relationship as reflected in the popularity of famous Bengalis like Subhas Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday.

"Bengal is the gateway to Indo-Japan relationship. The relationship between India and Japan is at the deepest level of the soul and this is reflected in the context of people like Tagore, Bose, Swami Vivekananda and the Japanese artists and intellectuals," Abe said here after inaugurating the Rabindra-Okakura Bhavan, an India-Japanese cultural centre, in Salt Lake ...

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