Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abesaid on Thursday that his country was looking up to West Bengal as the gateway to India and expected to play a major role in cementing the Indo-Japanese relationship.
He was inaugurating ‘ Rabindra –Okakura Bhavan’, an Indo-Japanese cultural center at Salt Lake , on Kolkata’s eastern fringe.
Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya , who was present at the function, gave away the Rabindra Smriti Puroskar to eminent researcher on Tagore, Professor Kazuo Azuma.