Your Executive Convenor, Mr APS Mani has been conferred the highest honour for a non-resident Indian by the Govt of India on 9th January at the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award function. The Award was conferred by the President of India. The photograph reflects Mr Mani being awarded the credentials in New Delhi. Her Excellency, the President of India, Mrs Pratibha Patil and Hon'ble Minister for Overseas Indians, Mr Vayalar Ravi and Mr Mani are seen at the Award function. It is a proud moment for the Indian Community Activities Tokyo.

Shifting of Embassy of India

Hello Fellow Residents

Our Embassy is shifting to a temporary premises so that the present structure is broken down and re-built.

Hence the passport and consular services will be closed for a few days during the shifting and from then on they will be available at the temporary address.

Details of the above are available at the following URL:

http://www.embassyofindiajapan.org/index.html

Best wishes

APS Mani, Executive Convenor

Mr APS Mani

Indian Community Activities Tokyo (ICAT) is an association of Indians living in the Kanto area of Japan. This is purely a voluntary association with no subscription or annual membership fee payable by members. The membership is open to all Indian nationals, people of Indian origin and foreign spouse of Indians living in the Kanto area. Whenever ICAT Newsletter is printed, the same is sent free of cost to the members. To become a member of the association, fill out the data refelected in the registration page or e-mail the details such as name, address, details of family members, telephone numbers, etc. to email manicat@gol.com or fax the same to 03-3727-4419. Once we hear from you, you are already a member of our Community automatically!

A special request: We have re-designed our Web page recently. We request ALL of you who are eligible to be members to register ONCE AGAIN through our web site at your earliest convenience. This is to help us keep you informed of our activities as well as enable authorities to reach you and your family members in case of an emergency.

It will also keep us updated of your membership details. We are starting the data record anew and thus the request to register through the website, once again.

Though this website is updated periodically, there are occasions in which communications will be by telephone calls, followed by mail (post) as the communication should be authenitc. Examples are invitations when VIPs from India visit Tokyo and similar occasions.

In addition to providing information on various events and functions organised by ICAT and other sources, this site also lists useful contact addresss, telephone/facsimile numbers, and HTML links of India related organisations and other places in Kanto area.

Other than this page, this site consists of What's New page that shows the changes administered to this site, Register page for registering yourself in ICAT, Events page, Useful Information page and Personal page.

This site also provides an opportunity for Indians in Kanto area to exchange and share information. As we will regularly update this site, please visit often and give us your kind feedback.

We always look forward to your comments for further improving this Web site. We also greatly welcome any information that would be useful to Indians in Japan. Please feel free to send Your suggestions and opinions to us via e-mail. Thank you.

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