A Growing Community of Telugu People in Japan..

JTS....Started as a small group of friends meeting in their residence to celebrate telugu functions around 20 years ago, now grown up as community of over 300 people getting together to celebrate UGADI and Vanabojanalu yearly once. Our sincere thanks to all the volunteers who worked over the years organizing and helping JTS community to grow and establish Telugu identity in japan and building a strong platform for telugu people to come together and celebrate.

Objectives of JTS

This web site is run by group of volunteers and telugu friends, with the objectives of providing a common platform for Telugu people living in japan networking and find new friends who speak the same mother tongue.

• Building an opportunity for Telugu people in japan to come together and celebrate Telugu functions.
• Preserving the Telugu Culture and introducing the culture to our Children who grow up far away from homeland.
• Support, help and promote Telugu events organized by various members in the community.
• To connect and support Telugu people in japan.

Telugu Language and Culture

Telugu belongs to the South-central Dravidian language subfamily. Whose members originated from the proto-Dravidian Spoken in the central part of the Deccan plateau. Telugu is mainly spoken in the state) of Andhra Pradesh/Telangana and to a lesser extent in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh in India. It is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius, The United Arab Emirates, the United States and the United Kingdom where there is a Considerable Telugu Diaspora. Telugu is the Second largest Spoken language in India after Hindi.