Bollywood actress Evelyn Sharma said Friday that she, along with Miss World Japan 2015, Chika Naka-gawa, will appear in a 2017 calendar featuring photos taken at tourist sites around the nation as part of a project to attract more Indian tourists to Japan.
In the calendar, the women will be clad in clothes featuring hybrid designs from the two countries.
"Fashion is a universal language," Sharma told a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.
"We can also find places where Indian movies can be shot. It will make a completely different picture to have the beautiful background of Japan," she said.
Indian fashion designer Narendra Kumar, who created the clothes they will wear, said at the news conference that his work will bring India and Japan closer through the appeal of fashion.
The Japanese branding firm La Ditta Ltd. will start selling the calendar in June both in Japan and India.
The Japanese government aims to welcome 40 million foreign visitors annually by 2020 when Tokyo will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
