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Photo Exhibition and Documentary Show to Commemorate Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and to view Sakura Blossoming at Kathmandu University Garden

Date: March 11, 2013

Venue: CV Raman Auditorium

Time 2:45 to 4:15

A documentary show was held at CV Raman auditorium in Kathmandu University on March 11, Monday to commemorate the great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred near the northeast coast of Japan on 11 March 2011.

The program was started by His Excellency the ambassador of Japan to Nepal Mr. Kunio Takahashi by inaugurating the photo exhibition of the Tohuku earthquake, its immediate aftermath and the recovery effort carried out by Japanese and other oversees volunteers in last two years.

More than 250 people attended the program that included students and staff of Kathmandu University.

The program started with welcome note by Mr. Parash Khadka graduate student at Department of Mechanical Engineering and a minute of silence conducted by Dr. Bim Prasad Shrestha to pay tribute to those who lost their lives exactly two years ago.

The documentary show was one of the motivating that carried a story of a fisherman; how he could succeed to recover his business within 3 months of the disaster.