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Japanese Ambassador visits UCC Arboretum

17 Oct 2023
Japan's Ambassador or Ireland, Mr Norio Maruyama at the UCC Arboretum recently. Left to right: Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich, Dr Eoin Lettice, Mr Norio Maruyama, Prof. Kiri Paramore, Professor of Asian Studies, UCC. (Images: Max Bell, UCC)

Japan's Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Norio Maruyama visited UCC recently to mark an agreement between Japan's National Diet Library and UCC. While at UCC, the Ambassador had the opportunity to enjoy the international-accredited UCC Arboretum.

Mr Maruyama was able to explore a selection of the 2,500 trees in the collection including a Katsura tree and some Ginkgo biloba trees, both native to Japan.

Dr Eoin Lettice spoke to Mr Maruyama about the UCC-Hiroshima project which involves the germination of seed from 'Survivor Trees' at UCC.  Survivor Trees are those which survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.


In a collaboration with Green Legacy Hiroshima, the seeds are collected in Hiroshima and dispatched to UCC before they are germinated at the School of BEES. In due course, the trees will be planted into the UCC Arboretum collection as well as at a number of locations around the Cork city. The Ambassador viewed one of the trees during his visit to the UCC Arboretum.

More information on the ambassador's visit to UCC here.

 

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