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India and Japan have signed a Social Security Agreement (SSA) and will come into force on 1st October 2016.

Indian professionals working in Japan on short term contracts of up to six years will no longer require to make any social security contribution in that country if they continue to make such payments in India with the two countries firming up an agreement in this regard.
•    Similarly, Japanese employees posted in India would enjoy the same benefit under provisions of the Indo-Japan Social Security agreement which will come into force on 1st October 
•    Besides benefiting the professionals in each other's country, the pact will provide for cooperation in areas of labour market expansion, employment facilitation and orderly migration.
•    The Social Security Agreement (SSA) between India and Japan was signed in Tokyo on November 16, 2012 and the administrative arrangement for implementation of the pact was exchanged between the two sides on June 9.
•    India has already signed SSAs with 15 countries -- Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Austria, and Australia.

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