20 December 2016

60th Anniversary for the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and (Year 2016) List of Commemorative Events

Date Venue Name of Event Organiser

Embassy of Japan(EOJ) January 22-23 Japanese Film Festival Japanese Language Teachers' (Nepal) Association Nepal(JALTAN) Earth Tree Open Lecture Yokohama 2016 “Looking at Japan from Approved Specified Nonprofit January 30 (Japan) Nepal, Looking at Nepal from Corporation Earth Tree Japan” FUTATABI Ishinomaki McCann Healthcare Worldwide February 6 MUSEUM／FUTATABI (Japan) Japan, Inc NEPAL EOJ Japan Student Services Kathmandu February 13 Japan Education Fair Organisation(JASSO) (Nepal) Japanese Universities Alumni Association, Nepal (JUAAN) Kathmandu February 20 Japanese Speech Contest JALTAN (Nepal) Kathmandu Traditional songs and ballads Tokushima Nepal Friendship February 27 (Nepal) show of Japan Association February 26 - Kathmandu Exhibition ‘Passage to the EOJ March 8 (Nepal) Future’ Japan Foundation National Seminar on "Six Decade of Japanese Kathmandu JICA Alumni Association of March 11 Cooperation: Special (Nepal) Nepal (JAAN) Reference to Agricultural Development in Nepal" Kathmandu Japanese Karaoke EOJ March 12 (Nepal) Competition JALTAN Theatres “Everest The Summit of the March 12- nationwide in KADOKAWA CORPORATION Gods” film project Japan Nepal Photo Tokyo March 14-18 exhibition『Inside.』by Hirotaka Student project for Nepal (Japan) Tsurekawa Kathmandu 42nd Annual Program of March 18 JUAAN (Nepal) JUAAN Jazz Concert/ workshop by Kathmandu EOJ March 26-27 SATOH Masahiko & (Nepal) Japan Foundation NoModismo 20 December 2016

Date Venue Name of Event Organiser

Nepal earthquake memorial Kathmandu, event【School Oilfield April 1 - June Gorkha, caravan】JILIMIL NEPAL! (Global environment cultural 30 Pokhara, 2016 exchange society) ECOPARTY (3 months) Lumbini ≪DANCE COMPETITION & (Nepal) LIGHT UP FESTIVAL≫

Press Tour on Japan's Sindhupalchok, Support for Build Back Better JICA Nepal Office April 18-19 Dhading (Nepal) Earthquake Recovery in Embassy of Japan Nepal

Nepal earthquake memorial Japan Platform Nepal Tokyo event 1 year has passed April 23 Earthquake Emergency (Japan) ~Remember and keep in Response Working Group mind Nepal~

Nepal Earthquake Kathmandu April 23-25 reconstruction baseball Nepal Baseball Club Laligurans (Nepal) tournament

Nepal Earthquake One Year Kathmandu National Reconstruction April 25 Memorial Build Back Better (Nepal) Authority JICA and Resilience Workshop

Gala Dinner to mark Mt. Kathmandu April 29 Manaslu Diamond Jubilee Japanese Alpine Club (Nepal) Celebration

Tokyo Fukushima NEPAL NAMASTE NIPPON I thought so! I'll go to Nepal! April - Dec. (Japan) I thought so! I'll go to Nepal! (LOVE FOR NIPPON) (TBD) Workshop on Japan-Nepal Urgent Collaborative Projects Kathmandu Japan Science and Technology June 21-22 regarding the April 2015 (Nepal) Agency (JST) Nepal earthquake within the J- RAPID Program

Training on Structural and Yokohama June 27-30 Seismic Engineering for Post- (JAPAN) City of Yokohama Earthquake Reconstruction CITYNET Yokohama Project Oct.-Nov. Support Kathmandu Office (TBD) -Yokohama C2C Initiative for (NEPAL) CITYNET Disaster Cluster- 20 December 2016

Date Venue Name of Event Organiser

Kathmandu Nepal Eartquake Charity Live Fuji OK Japanese Language June 30 (Nepal) Concert Center Pvt. Ltd

July 11 - Aug Kathmandu Japanese Language Teachers' 1ST IKEBANA CLASS 22 (Nepal) Association Nepal (JALTAN)

Tokyo Nepal Seminar "Business Japan - Nepal Business July 15 (Japan) Possibilities in Nepal" Association

South Asia Federation of Kathmandu Japanese Alumni Association July 16 JUAAN (Nepal) meeting and Japanese Language Speech Contest

Shizuoka July 17 (Japan) EDO DAIKAGURA IN NEPAL SANTARO KAGURA Kathmandu, December 17- Patan 19 (Nepal)

Plantation of native-species Changnarayan seedlings for restoration of July 20 - 25 Yamada Bee Company, Inc. (Nepal) native forest in Changnarayan, Nepal, 2016

On July 30: 1) Seminar on "Role of Japanese Language Education Strengthening Japan Nepal Relationship" Japanese Language Teachers' Yellow Pagoda 2) Exhibition on "Semblance Association Nepal(JALTAN) July 30 - 31 Hotel Kathmandu between Japan and Nepal" Nepal AOTS Alumni Association (Nepal) 3) "Japan Nepal Night" (NAAS) On July 31: Only exhibition open to all public

YOYOGI PARK Non Profit Organisation NRNA August 6 - 7 9th Nepal Festival 2016 (Japan) JAPAN 20 December 2016

Date Venue Name of Event Organiser

August 10 - Dhadingbesi Disaster Protection December 10 JICA JOCV Education Team (Nepal) Education/ Evacuation drills

Nepal Academy 4th Japanese Language Japanese Language School August 20 Hall, Kathmandu Speech Contest Association of Nepal (JALSAN) (Nepal)

Kathmandu Performance of Japanese September 1 Akafujidaiko (Nepal) drum

Shinagawa Campus, Rissho September 20 Public Lecture Rissho University University (Japan)

Bhrikuti Mandap September. 23 - Kathmandu Nepal Chamber Expo 2016 Nepal Chamber of Commerce 27 (Nepal) Tsurumi Central Community Sharing Happiness with Dr. Approved Specified Nonprofit September 25 House Kamal Phuyal Corporation Earth Tree (Japan) Talk Program on Celebrating Hotel Soaltee Diamond Jubilee Nepal- September 26 Crown Plaza International Concern Center Japan Relations: Enhancing (Kathmandu) Closer Cooperation Everest International "My Nepal" Creative Karuta October 1 Karuta 2020 Project Team School Workshop (Japan) The 2016 Everyone's Disaster The Everyone's Disaster Hive Nagaoka October 1 - 2 Prevention Fair / Friendship Prevention Fair Executive (Japan) booth with Nepal Committee

Hotel Pokhara The 10th Anniversary of the Japan-Nepal Female Education October 19 Grande Establishment of the Sakura Association (JNFEA) & Kanya (Nepal) Feeder Hostel in Pokhara Campus Pokhara (KCP) Army Officers' Sadao Watanabe Jazz Embassy of Japan (EOJ) October 22 - 23 Club Concert (Kathmandu) Korakuen October 29 Japan Nepal Smile Festival Japan-Nepal friendship society Hall（Tokyo） 20 December 2016

Date Venue Name of Event Organiser

Nepal Promotion Film October ～ In Japan Nepal Nepal Promotion Film Project Management Office Kathmandu, November 11, Pokhara, WORLD PEACE through 12, 18, 19, 25, NPO M21 NETWORK Lumbini MANDALA in Nepal 26 (Nepal) Faculty of Animal Science, Bharatpur, Symposium on Animal Health Veterinary Science and November 18 Chitwan and Reproduction Fisheries, Agriculture and (Nepal) Forestry University

Kathmandu Nepal Earthquake Charity November 19 Colorbath (Nepal) Friendly Football Match

The improvement support of Devichour VDC Education, Reconstruction of 2670 District Port Nagoya Nov. 19 - 22 Kathmandu school and the improvement Rotary club (Nepal) in awareness of Disaster and training in Nepal

Tundikhel, Japan Festival 2016 Executive November 26 Japan Festival 2016 in Nepal Kathmandu Committee

Tribhuvan Army Japanese Karaoke Embassy of Japan November 26 Officers' Club Competition JALTAN Kathmandu

Nov. 26 - 28 Hetauda Sirjana College of Fine Arts / TAUE PROJECT 2016 IN Setsu Suzuki & TAUE Project Nepal Dec. 2 - 8 Patan (KCAC) 2016 Committee

Pokhara, Kathmandu, Nepal Special Full moon Tour November Naurikot, Global Youth Bureau Co., Ltd. with Mr. Yuichiro Miura Chitwan (Nepal) 20 December 2016

Date Venue Name of Event Organiser

November 1 - MANASLU HELICOPTER HIMALAYA KANKO KAIHATSU Nepal March 30, 2017 TREKKING FOR 11 DAYS CO., LTD.

Karyabinayak Municipality, Kirtipur Municipality, Conference on the Panauti Municipality, Patan preservation of Historic November 30 Municipality, (Nepal) Settlements in Kathmandu Tokyo National Research Valley Institute for Cultural Properties (TNRICP) Kathmandu Embassy of Japan December 3 Japanese Education Fair (Nepal) JASSO

Symposium on 「Sixty Years Birendra Nagar of Nepal-Japan Relations: Mid-Western University December 6 (Surkhet, Nepal) Moving Further Ahead」 and Surkhet, Nepal Other Activities

December 15 - Kathmandu, 29 Pokhara, Gorkha, Bharatpur, International Community Non-Profit Organization Music Lumbini Engagement Program Sharing (Nepal) June 11 - 24, 2017 Japan Nagasaki Univ. Kumamoto Univ. December 17, Nepal film show Nepal film "MAHAVEER" YMCA 18 "MAHAVEER" Production Committee KARYOKAI (Japan)

December 19 - Kathmandu Matsumoto City Official Visit MATSUMOTO CITY 21 (Nepal) to Kathmandu City

Symposium on 「Sixty Years Kathmandu December 22 of Nepal-Japan Relations: (Nepal) Kirtipur, Kathmandu Moving Further Ahead」 20 December 2016

Nerima ward office hall, (20th Musical event and album Nepal Japan Economic December 26 floor), Tokyo release – Gurans and Sakura Organization (Japan)

The events on the list have been endorsed by either the Government of Japan or the Government of Nepal. Please ask organizers for details of the events.