Tokyo, Aug. 29 -- India and Japan concluded an important action plan on human resources on Friday, aiming to exchange 500,000 people over the next five years, including 50,000 skilled and semi-skilled personnel from India to Japan, the MEA said.

While adressing the MEA press briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Japan visit, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, "There is an Indian diaspora in Japan, but the mechanics of how to leverage this better have been a subject of discussion between both governments."

"And we find that one of the outcomes of these discussions is the discovery of a natural complementarity between the two sides of what India can provide at this point in time and what Japanese society, Japanese economy, and Japa...