The Japanese Government in order to strengthen the historical ties with India decided to donate Rs. 22 lakh to the Rabindra Bharati Museum. The announcements were made on Monday. The Consul General of Japan, Masayuki Taga in Kolkata will sign an MoU with Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, the Vice Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, on Wednesday. Rabindra Bharati University was established in 1962 to mark the birth centenary of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
The University issued a statement saying that the “renovated and refurbished Japan Gallery in the Jorasanko Thakurbari campus of the University will go a long way to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution in the Japan-India relations”.
Rabindranath Tagore visited the ‘land of rising sun’ quite a few times. He was considered as the cultural ambassador of the country. Rabindranath Tagore was the person from Asia to receive a Nobel Prize and he went to Japan in 1916, 1924, and 1929.