Ambassador Watanabe paid tribute at the Japanese memorial monument in Kokoda

2023/1/27
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On 23 January 2023, Ambassador Watanabe Nobuyuki visited Kokoda, Oro (Northern) Province, with Governor Gary Juffa of Oro Province (Northern Province), and laid a wreath and offered a moment of silence at the Japanese memorial monument.
 
On the way to Kokoda from Popondetta, provincial capital, they visited “OISCA Oro Ecology and Agriculture Training Institute” which is run by a local community with support by OISCA, Japanese NGO, to spread sustainable agricultural techniques to the local famers. Ambassador Watanabe also visited a home village of Governor Juffa to attend an welcome ceremony hosted by the villagers.