Journey of Yogi from Ambarnath, Mumbai to Tokyo (Video)

IndoJapanPulse, under IMPACT series introducing Yogendra Puranik famously known as “Yogi”

This featured post covers the story of Yogi encompassing from his childhood to becoming of a banker, owner of two restaurants in Tokyo, social enthusiast promoting Indian culture through Edogawa Indian Culture Center (EICC). This post covers how he overcame various challenges at work, business and also his journey about the Japanese language. What made him start his first restaurant REKA and challenges that he faced. What was the motivation behind EICC and finally what is his new initiative called All Japan Association of Indians (AJAI)

While Yogi is known in Indian community he is equally known in the Japanese community as well, Yogi has a lot to share hence IndoJapanPulse is bringing you his video interview in the following sections

Childhood in Ambarnath, education, various interesting experience, learnings to landing in Japan (45 Minutes)
Yogi opens up about his childhood memories, about his family, and journey in school, experience in college, lessons and various jobs in India and Japan

How REKA started, version 1.0 (24 Minutes)
How a challenging experience generated the idea of REKA, what were the initial struggles, how he came out of it and what are the lesson learned.

What is AJAI? His new initiative (3 Minutes)
A very brief curtain raiser on AJAI.

https://youtu.be/eJ4ouUyr4xU

Message to Indians living in Japan (1.5 minutes)
What needs to be done as India community in Japan

https://youtu.be/hnPskqCLvdw

Message to Japanese Nationals (3 Minutes)
How should one see Indian nationals in Japan? (インド人に対してどのように考えば良いのか？)

We hope his journey invokes even your initial experiences and memories of being in Japan, inspires you to try & explore new avenues of your personality & interest.

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