Japan and India have long developed friendly relations at a general public level. Japan's Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko arrived in India on 30th November 2013 on a six-day visit to India. The aim of the visit to India has been to strengthen the bilateral and economic relations between Japan and India.
This is the first time that Their Majesties pay an official visit to India. However, in 1960, His Majesty the Emperor, when he was Crown Prince, made a visit to India, on behalf of Emperor Showa, with Her Majesty the Empress, Crown Princess at that time, in return for the visit to Japan by then Indian President Rajendra Prasad. (Afterwards, Their Majesties, Crown Prince and Princess at that time, stopped at India respectively in 1962 on the occasion of the official visit to Pakistan and Indonesia and in 1975 on the occasion of the attendance at the coronation of His Majesty the King of Nepal.)
To commemorate the first visit of the Japanese Emperor and Empress to India Department of Posts released a Commemorative Stamp on 5th December 2013. The department released the stamp in the denomination of Rs. 20 featuring Qutub Minar and the Tokyo Tower. It is one of the very rare occasions in Indian Philatelic History when a stamp has been released to commemorate the visit of a dignitary.
Hon'ble Governer of Tamilnadu Dr. K. Rosaiah released the stamp to mark the visit of Emperor and Empress of Japan to India at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa was also present in the function.
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