Empress Michiko
Jafa is the General Secretary of the Indian National Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). She presided over the 26th Congress of the IBBY, conducted in 1998, as its Chairperson. In 1998, Jafa invited Empress Michiko of Japan to give the keynote speech at the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Congress in New Delhi and later visited Empress Michiko in Japan. In 2013, as Secretary-General of the IBBY India section, she met with the Empress and introduced her to members of the group, after previously meeting her in Japan in 2004.