Once you get out of Nishi-Kasai Station on the Tozai subway line, it's likely that you will bump into at least half a dozen Indians in the first five minutes on the street.

Nishi-Kasai in Edogawa Ward is known as "Little India," home to more than 2,000 Indian residents, or about 10 percent of the 22,858 in Japan as of 2009. It is the biggest Indian community in Japan, served by an Indian grocery store, Indian restaurants and Indian schools.

The development of this community owes partly to Jagmohan Chandrani, 59, head of the Indian Community of Edogawa and one of the first Indian people to settle in Nishi-Kasai.