1. INTRODUCTION OF INDIA2. INTRODUCTION OF JAPAN3. LANGUAGE OF JAPAN4. LANGUAGE OF INDIA5. MONUMENTS OF JAPAN6. MONUMENTS OF INDIA7. CUSINE OF JAPAN8. CUSINE OF INDIA9. FESTIVAL OF JAPAN10. FESTIVAL OF INDIA11. ART OF JAPAN12. ART OF INDIA13. LITERATURE OF JAPAN14. LITERATURE OF INDIA15. MUSIC AND DANCE OF JAPAN16. MUSIC AND DANCE OF INDIA17.SPORTS OF JAPAN18.SPORTS OF INDIA

19.CLOTHING OF JAPAN20.CLOTHING OF INDIA21.RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIA AND JAPAN

"A land of incredible diversity: modern yet steeped in custom; home of the friendliest of welcomes. A country of blazing neon lights and rugged mountains, coasts and valleys.”

Japan has a fascinating and multifaceted culture; on the one hand it is steeped in the deepest of traditions dating back thousands of years; on the other it is a society in a continual state of rapid flux, with continually shifting fads and fashions and technological development that constantly pushes back the boundaries of the possible. It could therefore be said that Japan is a country of stark contradictions and is in part this that makes it such a fascinating country to visit and is a unique tourist destination.

The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary hybrid culture, which combines influences from Asia, Europe, and North America. The Japanese culture is a multi-layered and complex system that has been developing within itself and forming new layers for thousands of years.

"Unity in diversity". It is not just another phrase or quotation. But, these words are highly prudent to a country like India that is incredibly rich in culture and heritage. Few quotations or statements cannot describe the pedestal that India holds in the world because of its colorful and unique culture.From the times of Mauryas, Cholas, Mughals till to the period of British Empire, India has always been famous for its traditions and hospitality. The warmth in the relations and euphoria in celebrations make the country stands out distinctively in the clutter. The country's liveliness and generosity attract a number of tourists. The cuisines, festivals, music, literature, and theatre..everything is 'special' in this 'land of gods'.Traditional yet Contemporary,the Indian culture has never been rigid and that's why it's surviving with pride in the modern era. It timely imbibes the qualities of various other cultures and comes out as a contemporary and acceptable tradition. That is what unique about the Indian culture..it moves on with the time.

Japanese (日本語 Nihongo, [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo] is

an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million

speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national

language. It is a member of the Japonic (or

Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, whose

relation to other language groups, particularly

to Korean and the suggested Altaiclanguage family,

is debated.

National language is the mental body (sheath d) of the nation. Our national language Hindi has brought all Bharatiyas together. However in the post-independence era, the ungrateful Indians, especially the ruling politicians, are trying to destroy Hindi language with the help of Urdu and English languages. The comman man is ignorant about the seriousness in these things. Some times one comes across words like 'Badshah (emperor) Ram and Begum (empress) Sita'. ManyBharatiyas call out 'Aey Maalik' instead of calling out 'Hey Bhagwan'.

Kinkaku-ji or the Temple of the Golden Pavilion is the most popular tourist attraction in Japan and Kyoto. The pavilion was originally built as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in the late 14th century. Unfortunately, the pavilion was burnt down in 1950 by a young monk who had become obsessed with it. Five years later, the temple was rebuilt as an exact copy of the original. Emphasis is placed on the building and surrounding gardens being in harmony with one another. The pavilion is covered in gold leaf which highlights the reflection of the pavilion in the pond and the pond’s reflection on the building.

Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 meters (12,388 ft). The volcano’s exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as a popular tourist attraction for sightseers and climbers. An estimated 200,000 people climb Mount Fuji every year, 30% of whom are foreigners. The ascent can take anywhere between three and eight hours while the descent can take from two to five hours.

Hawa Mahal stands upright as the entrance to the City

Palace, Jaipur. An important landmark in the city,

Hawa Mahal is an epitome of the Rajputana

architecture. The splendid five-storey “Palace of the

Winds” is a blend of beauty and splendor much close

to Rajasthan’s culture. Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh

built Hawa Mahal in 1779. The pyramid shape of this

ancient monument is a tourist attraction having 953

small windows

Taj Mahal,the pinnacle of Mughal architecture, was built by

the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658), grandson of

Akbar the great, in the memory of his queen Arjumand Bano

Begum, entitled ‘Mumtaz Mahal’. Mumtaz Mahal was a niece of

empress Nur Jahan and granddaughter of Mirza Ghias Beg

I’timad-ud-Daula, wazir of emperor Jehangir. She was born in

1593 and died in 1631, during the birth of her fourteenth child

at Burhanpur. Her mortal remains were temporarily buried in

the Zainabad garden.

Japanese cuisine is the food—ingredients, preparation and way of eating—of Japan.

The traditional food of Japan is based on rice with miso soup and other dishes, each in

its own utensil, with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients. The side dishes often

consist of fish, pickled vegetables, and vegetables cooked in broth. Fish is common in

the traditional cuisine. It is often grilled, but it may also be served raw as sashimi or in

sushi. Seafood and vegetables are also deep-fried in a light batter as tempura.

Apart from rice, staples include noodles, such as soba and udon. Japan has many

simmered dishes such as fish products in broth called oden, or beef in sukiyaki and

nikujaga. Foreign food, in particular Chinese food in the form of noodles in soup called

ramen and fried dumplings, gyoza, and western food such as curry and hamburger

steaks are commonly found in Japan. Historically, the Japanese shunned meat, but with

the modernization of Japan in the 1860s, meat-based dishes such as tonkatsu became

common.

Some of them are: Curry, Domburi, Gomaae, Gyoza, Gyudon, Korokke, Nikujaga,

Okonomiyaki, Pickles, Ramen, Rice, Sushi, Tofu, Udon, Yakitori, Wasabi etc.

Traditional Japanese sweets are known as wagashi.More modern day sweets in Japan

are green tea ice cream. Green tea ice cream is a very popular flavor of ice cream in

Japan and almost all manufacturers produce a version of it. Kakigori is a shaved ice

desert flavored with syrup or condensed milk. A dessert very popular among the

children in Japan are dorayaki. They are sweet pancakes filled with a sweet bean paste.

Indian cuisine encompasses a wide variety of regional cuisines native to India.

Given the range of diversity in soil type, climate and occupations, these cuisines

vary significantly from each other and use locally available spices, herbs,

vegetables and fruits. Indian food is also heavily influenced by religious and

cultural choices and traditions.

Many Indian dishes are cooked in vegetable oil, but peanut oil is popular in

northern and western India, mustard oil in eastern India, and coconut oil along the

western coast, especially in Kerala. Gingelly (sesame) oil is common in the south

since it imparts a fragrant nutty aroma. In recent decades, sunflower and soybean

oils have become popular across India. Hydrogenated vegetable oil, known as

Vanaspati ghee, is another popular cooking medium. Butter-based ghee, or desi

ghee, is used frequently, though less than in the past.

Some of them are: A variety of Dals, Idli, Sattu, Dhokla, Pav Bhaji, Dal Bhati, Chole-

Bhature, Biryani and a variety of them as well.

Many Indian sweets, or mithai, are fried foods made with sugar, milk or condensed

milk. Ingredients vary by region. In the eastern part of India, for example, most

sweets are based on milk products some of them are: Barfi, Gulab Jamun, Ladoo,

Rasgulla, Kheer, Kulfi and many more.

The Yokote Kamakura Festival (横手の雪祭り, Yokote no Yuki Matsuri) has a history of about 400

years.

It is held every year on February 15 and 16 in the city of Yokote in southeastern Akita Prefecture.

The festival features many igloo-like snow houses, called kamakura, which are built at various

locations across the city.Within each kamakura there is a snow altar dedicated to the water deity, to

whom people pray for ample water.

The Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo Yuki Matsuri) is held during one week every

February in Hokkaido's capitalSapporo. It is one of Japan's most popular winter events.

The Sapporo Snow Festival was started in 1950, when high school students built a few

snow statues in Odori Park. It has since developed into a large, commercialized event,

featuring spectacular snow and ice sculptures.

The Aoi Matsuri (葵祭) is one of Kyoto's three most famous festivalls

and takes place every May 15.

The festival's main attraction is a large parade in Kyoto, in which over 500 people

dressed in the aristocratic style of the Heian Period

(794-1185) walk from the Imperial Palace to the Kamo Shrines.

The first nine days of this festival are known as Navaratri, and are filled with dance

in honor of the Mother Goddess. The tenth day, called Dussehra, is devoted to

celebrating the defeat of the demon king Ravana by Lord Rama. It also coincides

with the victory of the revered warrior Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon

Mahishasura.

In eastern India, the festival is observed as Durga Puja. Huge statues of the

Goddess are made and immersed in the holy Ganges River. The festi val is an

extremely social and theatrical event, with drama, dance, and cultural

performances held throughout the country.

Krishna Janmashtami/Govinda

Navaratri, Dussehra, and Durga Puja

Diwali is a five day festival that represents the start of the Hindu New Year. It's known as the "Festival of Lights“ for all the fireworks, small clay lamps, and candles that are lit during the celebrations. These lights are said to represent the victory of good over evil, and brightness over darkness.

Krishna Janmashtami, also known as Govinda, commemorates the birthday of Lord Krishna. An extremely fun part of the festival involves

people climbing on each other and forming a human pyramid to try and reach and break open clay pots filled with curd, which have been strung up high from buildings.

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, kirie, kirigami, origami, and more recently manga - modern Japanese cartoons -along with a myriad of other types of works of art. It also has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present. The earliest complex art in Japan was produced in the 7th and 8th centuries in connection with Buddhism. Painting is the preferred artistic expression in Japan, practiced by amateurs and professionals alike. Until modern times, the Japanese wrote with a brush rather than a pen, and their familiarity with brush techniques has made them particularly sensitive to the values and aesthetics of painting. With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form and its techniques were fine tuned to produce colorful prints of everything from daily news to schoolbooks. The Japanese, in this period, found sculpture a much less sympathetic medium for artistic expression; most Japanese sculpture is associated with religion, and the medium's use declined with the lessening importance of traditional Buddhism.

Indian Art is the visual art produced on the Indian subcontinent from about the 3rd

millennium BCE to modern times. A strong sense of design is characteristic of Indian art

and can be observed in its modern as well as in its traditional forms. Indian art can be

classified into specific periods each reflecting particular religious, political and

cultural developments.

1. Ancient period (3900 BCE-1200 CE)

2. Islamic ascendancy (1192-1757)

3. Colonial period (1757–1940)

4. Independence and the postcolonial period (Post-1947)

The pink sandstone Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sculptures of Mathura from the 1st to 3rd

centuries CE reflected both native Indian traditions and the Western influences received

through the Greco-Buddhist art of Qandahar, and effectively established the basis for

subsequent Indian religious sculpture.The style was developed and diffused through most of

India under the Gupta Empire (c. 320-550) which remains a "classical" period for Indian

sculpture, covering the earlier Ellora Caves, though the Elephanta Caves are probably

slightly later.

Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan. Eventually, Japanese literature developed into a separate style in its own right as Japanese writers began writing their own works about Japan, although the influence of Chinese literature and Classical Chinese remained until the end of the Edo period. Since Japan reopened its ports to Western trading and diplomacy in the 19th century, Western and Eastern literature have strongly affected each other and continue to do so.japanese Literature can be divided into four main periods: ancient, classical, medieval and modern.

Indian Literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until

1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially

recognized Language.

All dates about the ancient Indian literature are not only uncertain, but are contested.

European scholars from 18th century onwards estimated dates of various texts based on

methods that Indian scholars consider arbitrary. The earliest works of Indian literature

were orally transmitted. Sanskrit literature begins with the oral literature of the Rig

Veda a collection of sacred hymns dating to the period 1500–1200 BCE. The Sanskrit

epics Ramayana and Mahabharata appeared towards the end of the first millennium

BCE. Classical Sanskrit literature developed rapidly during the first few centuries of the

first millennium BCE, as did the Tamil Sangam literature, and the Pāli Canon. In the

medieval period, literature in Kannada and Telugu appeared in the 9th and 11th

centuries respectively.Later, literature in Marathi, Bengali, various dialects

of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. Early in the 20th century, Bengali

poet Rabindranath Tagore became India's first Nobel laureate. In contemporary Indian

literature, there are two major literary awards; these are the Sahitya Akademi

Fellowship and the Jnanpith Award. Eight Jnanpith Awards each have been awarded in

Hindi and Kannada, followed by five in Bengali and Malayalam, four in Oriya, three

in Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu,and 2 each in Assameseand Tamil

Their are two main types of japanese dance-Odori, which originated in western part of japan. Odori grew out of kaboki drama and is more oriented towards mail sentiment.Mai is tradionally performed in japanese room instead of the stage. It was influenced by noh drama..

It includes a wide array of performers in distictstyles both traditional and modern. The word for music injapanese is ongaku combinig the kangi on sound with the

kangi gaku enjoy. Japan is the second largest music market in the world..

Music of IndiaIt includes multiple varieties of folk music and indian classical music.. india's classical music tradition including hindustani music and carnatic has a history spanning millinea and developed over several eras. Music in India began an integral part of socio religious life..

Dance of India..It comprises the varied styles of dances in the country as with other accepts of indian culture. Different forms of dances originated in different parts of India, developed according to local traditions and also imbibed elements from other parts of the country.

Japan is a really contrasting Country from India in

terms of Sports. It doesn't involve in games like

Cricket. Baseball is the most popular

Sport in Japan. And who can miss Sumo, the

Special Wrestling Japan is popular

for? Apart from these, other Sports Japan is

involved in are Handball, Rugby, American Football, Car Racing, Boxing and such. Japan is very energetic in the field of games.

India has seen many games and sports through the course of

History. Whether it'd be Older Games like Gilli-Danda and Pitto or

the

Recent Ones like Cricket. Different Societies influenced the

Sports of India majorly. The Coming of the British brought in the

Legacy

of Cricket, and the Indian Cricket Team is one of the Best Cricket

Teams in International Cricket. India has shown it's valor in

CommonWealth Games, and it was even the Host in 2010. Some

other notable games popular in Indian Population are Hockey,

Chess, and of the Recent : Pro Kabaddi!

Hockey is the national game of India.

The Japanese typically wears 2 types of clothing = in modern japan , clothing is typically divided into western and japanese clothing . The traditional ethnic garments are still in use for various events like funeral , wedding , and festivals . An ex. Of japanese clothing is kimono , the traditional garment . Men and women both wear the same , it iswrapped around the body in severallayers and is made up of silk, hempor linen.

Clothing in India varies from region to region depending upon the ethnicity, geography , climate and cultural tradition of the people of the region . Historically , men and women clothing has evolved from simple angoras and loin clothes to cover the body to elaborate costumes not only in used in daily wear but on festivals and weddings . Women wear sari , stalwart kameez , lehenga and now a days western also. And men wear dhoti/lungi krta , jeans tshirts , pants and shirts

Japan and India have traditionally enjoyed cordial and friendly relations and the feelings of Indian people towards Japan have been good.Throughout history, India–Japan relations have traditionally been strong. For centuries, India and Japan have engaged in cultural exchanges, primarily as a result of Buddhism which spread indirectly from India to Japan, via China and Korea. During the Second World War, Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army and the Japanese Imperial Army fought together in battles against the British forces.India is the largest recipient of Japanese official development assistance .

Political relations between the two nations have remained warm since India's independence. Japanese companies, such as Sony, Toyota, and Honda, have manufacturing facilities in India, and with the growth of the Indian economy, India is a big market for Japanese firms. Japanese firms in fact, were some of the first firms to invest in India. The most prominent Japanese company to have an investment in India is automobiles multinational Suzuki, which is in partnership with Indian automobiles company Maruti Suzuki, the largest car manufacturer in the Indian market, and a subsidiary of the Japanese company.Relations between India and Japan have gone from strength to strength in recent years, with cooperation on infrastructure projects, trade and defence.