Established in 1930, this building is today known as the Indian Social Society (ISS) and figures centrally in the day-to-day community projects engaged in by its members. Many other major social organizations were established by the "Indian" community in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Organizations like the India Club (est. 1904, in Kobe), the Indian Merchants Association of Yokohama (est. 1921) and the Indian Chamber of Commerce Japan (est. 1937, in Osaka), were important indicators at the time of a significant base of Indian traders. This is despite the fact that the merchants' settlements in Japan at the time were still largely all-male commercial settlements and had yet to become familial diasporic communities. Even if some merchants had arranged for their families to shift to Japan, there was a strong sense of rootedness and frequent movement to and from the Subcontinent.