Story of India-Japan Relationship

The Story of India-Japan Relationship by Swami Medhasananda, head of the Vedanta Society of Japan, explores with great detail the friendship between Swami Vivekananda and Okakura Tenshin, and making this the ground the author explores the Indo-Japan relationship.

Swami Vivekananda was a staunch admirer of Japan for various reasons, and so was Okakura an ardent admirer of India. The study of their interaction and mutual influences makes for an illuminating understanding of Indo-Japan relationship, especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts.