{"id":1431,"date":"2018-02-21T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:28:30","slug":"nitish-kumar-proposes-sister-state-twinning-agreement-with-japans-nara-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/02\/21\/nitish-kumar-proposes-sister-state-twinning-agreement-with-japans-nara-prefecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar proposes ‘sister state twinning agreement’ with Japan’s Nara prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

PATNA: Japan\u2019s Nara prefecture and Bodhgaya in Bihar<\/a> will soon have a \u2018sister state twinning agreement\u2019
\nBihar CM Nitish Kumar<\/a> who is on a four-day visit to Japan<\/a> on Wednesday proposed to have a sister state twining agreement with Nara prefecture to strengthen bilateral relation between the two places of Buddhist importance.<\/p>\n

Nara prefecture has the distinction of having more UNESCO<\/a> World Heritage Listings than any other prefecture in Japan and also has huge number of Buddhist temples and sites like Bihar. Japan has 47 prefectures.<\/p>\n

Nara\u2019s prefectural governor Shogo Arai supported Nitish\u2019s proposal and also agreed to follow it up. \u201cThe Indian Embassy in Japan will provide necessary support to see that the twinning agreement takes shape,\u201d a statement issued from the office of Bihar CM said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Both the leaders also discussed about the significance of Buddha\u2019s teachings in today\u2019s world and how Buddhism is common link between Nara and Bihar and especially various Buddhist sites in the two regions.<\/p>\n

The Nara governor also praised the kind of visionary leadership that Nitish Kumar has given to Bihar and the significant development that the Indian state has witnessed in his leadership.<\/p>\n

Nitish, accompanied by Bihar\u2019s chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh, Indian Ambassador in Japan Sujan R Chinoy and other state officers, also visited famous Todai-Ji temple in the city of Nara.<\/p>\n

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Todai-Ji is a Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful seven great temples, located in the city of Nara in Japan.<\/p>\n

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Bihar CM thanked the governor for facilitating the visit to Todai-ji temple and for inviting him to Nara. The governor also hosted traditional lunch in the honour of Bihar CM. Chinoy was present during the Bihar CM\u2019s visit to Nara and meeting with Governor.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the day, Nitish Kumar met the representatives of Ecocycle Corporation, a Japanese company working on environmental issues, at Indian Embassy in Tokyo and had fruitful discussions on bringing the Corporation\u2019s technology to Bihar to tackle the problem of contaminated water.<\/p>\n

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Prior to that, Nitish met the representatives of Innovation Thru Energy Company Limited and was briefed about utility of the ice battery\u2019s cold ice chain technology for preserving food, vegetables, fruits and vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PATNA: Japan\u2019s Nara prefecture and Bodhgaya in Bihar will soon have a \u2018sister state twinning agreement\u2019 Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who is on a four-day visit to Japan on Wednesday proposed to have a sister state twining agreement with Nara prefecture to strengthen bilateral relation between the two places of Buddhist importance. Nara prefecture has the distinction of having more… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}