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Japanese Staff Leave India Amidst War Fears

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Japanese executives of companies like Suzuki, Toyota, Honda, Yamaha and Sony are leaving the country in hordes as fears of war loom large over India and Pakistan.

The Japanese government has chartered a flight to carry its citizens living in India to Japan. The 233-seater flight will leave Delhi on Monday evening. The 700-odd Japanese citizens here had been informed about the flight, a Japanese embassy official said.

This came in the wake of the Japanese government asking all its citizens in India and Pakistan to leave both the countries as soon as possible following the mounting tension on the Indo-Pak border.

 

Insurers imposing a war-risk premium on shipping firms servicing India and Japan Airlines cancelling a weekly flight to Delhi also deepened the crisis.

When contacted, a spokesperson of Maruti Udyog, the local venture of Suzuki Motor Corp., said about 15 Japanese personnel working in the company were leaving for their native places as per their government

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First Published: Jun 10 2002 | 12:00 AM IST

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