Send Gifts across India from Japan

Feb 28
07:54

2011

Redge Dawson

Redge Dawson

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Presenting a gift during any auspicious program is an old then among Indians. So while choosing your gift be selective.

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Indians started settlement in the land of Japan from a very early period,Send Gifts across India from Japan Articles as early as the later half of the nineteenth century. There were a few Indian traders of the Parsi and Sindhi community who travelled there. They started off business of Indian handicrafts and garments, precious stones and corals and pearls, and even fishes. Some of the earlier settlements by the people from India date back to 1870s in the cities of Yokohama and Okinawa. In the year 1891, the Tata business family, who then was only a small trading firm, started off a trading company in Kobe. In the early part of the twentieth century the number of Indians in Japan started growing fast. In 1901 there were around thirty Indians living there almost all of them men. In next four years the figure doubled. Of late Kobe became the main settlement area for the Indians; a survey showed that by end of the year 2008 there were around 22,335 Indians living in Japan of who many were descendents of early immigrants to Japan and some who are first timers in Japan and some who are recent migrants. Though the migrant population from India mainly concentrated their dwellings around Kobe, after 1990 this started spreading to Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Many of the IT professionals who are recent migrants settled with their families in the Setagaya and Minato wards. There are many industrial trainees too who arrive from Japanese companies' branches in India.

This rich Indian settlement here in Japan takes keen interest to celebrate their being Indians even in the foreign land of Japan. They practice their religion and culture and connect with their near and dear ones way back in India whenever they get an opportunity. Indians are well known for their celebration moods. They celebrate many religious and cultural festivals and in each of these festivals they send gifts to each other. Sending gifts in Indian culture is believed to be lucky and auspicious. Celebration which have got very deep cultural roots like raksha bandhan, bhai dooj, karwa chauth, religious festivals like Durga Puja and Dusshera, Dhanteras and Kali Puja etc., birthdays and anniversaries, regional new year celebrations like baisakhi, pongal etc. all have got gifting tradition as an integral part of their heritage. And to add to that, Indians settled outside India keenly send gifts with enthusiasm during the Christmas and the English New Year, Valentines Day and Father's and Mother's Day etc. The Indians buy gift and send to their relatives back home in India to give the message of strong bonding.

There is this wonderful company called GiftsAcrossIndia which takes up the entire burden for their clients to send gifts all over India from Japan. There are more than five hundred possible destinations they send gifts to, in India. The clients only have to select the gifts from the innumerable range of gifting items the company offers in its website Gifts across India.com, and place an order online. The order placed and the payment made, the company sends the gift with care to the destination and the deliveries are made round the clock on priority basis.

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