{"id":16798,"date":"2026-05-21T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:45:35","slug":"chief-secretary-with-japan-consul-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/?p=16798","title":{"rendered":"Chief Secretary with Japan Consul General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> Meeting of Chief Secretary with Japan Consul General to Strengthen Odisha\u2013Japan Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-J-01-1024x651.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-J-01-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/odishanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-J-01-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/odishanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-J-01-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/odishanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-J-01.jpg 1261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bhubaneswar : The Government of Odisha is taking forward discussions with the Government of Japan towards establishing a formal Friendship Agreement between Odisha and Tottori Prefecture, aimed at strengthening cooperation across industrial development, skill development, tourism, culture, youth exchange, and people-to-people ties.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Following the meeting between the Hon\u2019ble Chief Minister of Odisha with the Consul General of Japan in Kolkata, yesterday on 20<sup>th<\/sup> May,2026, an in-person meeting was held between Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha, Smt. Anu Garg, IAS, and the Consul General of Japan in Kolkata, ISHIKAWA Yoshihisa. Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Industries and I&amp;PR Department, Shri Hemant Sharma, IAS, was also present during the discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The meeting focused on the proposed Friendship Agreement between Odisha and Tottori Prefecture and explored opportunities for deepening bilateral cooperation in sectors of mutual interest. The draft framework of the agreement envisages collaboration in areas including economy and industry, tourism promotion, youth and student exchange, personnel exchange, culture, and environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussions were also held regarding coordination meeting involving the Government of Odisha, the Embassy of India in Tokyo, and the Tottori Prefectural Government to finalize modalities and timelines for the partnership.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Government of Odisha highlighted the State\u2019s growing industrial ecosystem and emerging opportunities in sectors such as advanced manufacturing, skill development, tourism, and cultural exchanges. Both sides also discussed possibilities for cooperation in Japanese language training, student and faculty exchanges, tourism promotion with focus on the Buddhist circuit, sports collaboration, and industry linkages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The proposed Odisha\u2013Tottori partnership is envisioned as an important step towards enhancing Odisha\u2019s engagement with Japan and promoting long-term cooperation in economic, cultural, educational, and industrial sectors.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting of Chief Secretary with Japan Consul General to Strengthen Odisha\u2013Japan Collaboration Bhubaneswar : The Government of Odisha is taking forward discussions with the Government of Japan towards establishing a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16801,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions\/16801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}