Keynote addresses were delivered by Dr Rufno Mauricio, Secretary of Department of Education of FSM, Prof Kataoka, representing Japan Consortium for International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage (JCIC-Heritage), as well as Wasa Lapalap Isipahu, Nahnmwarki of Madolenihmx, Traditional Chief of the region in which Nan Maol is located.

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In the States, Europe and Japan even, there are agencies representing small shareholders and institutional investors.

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Located in north-east Japan, the 12th-century site, representing the Buddhist Pure Land gained its world heritage status three months after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the surrounding region.

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Patterson has been invited to major food festivals and symposia everywhere Peru, France, Japan, Brazil and he's not the only chef representing his home turf.

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Representing traditional LDP thinking, Morimoto is known as a strong backer of the U.S.-Japan defense alliance and supports keeping U.S. Marines in Okinawa at a relocated Futenma airbase.

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Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.

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