The history of modern Indian settlement in Japan goes back more than a century . As early as 1873 , a few Indian businessmen and their families , primarily Parsis and Sindhis , had settled Yokohama as well as Okinawa . In 1891 , Tata , then a small trading firm , established a branch in Kobe . By 1901 , Japanese government statistics recorded 30 people from British India living in Japan . Local statistics of the Hyōgo Prefecture government showed 59 Indians living in the prefecture in 1905 , among whom all but one were men . After the destruction wreaked on Yokohama in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake , the Indian traders there also migrated to Kobe ; from then on , Kobe became the centre of gravity of Japan 's Indian community
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Indians in Japan