Japan gifts sakura saplings to Georgian Universities
Japan giftet over 100 saplings of Sakura to Tbilisi last week. Most of them were planted in the National Botanical Garden of Georgia. Photo: IPN.
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The Embassy of Japan to Georgia has gifted Japanese cherry (Sakura) saplings to different Georgian universities today. Georgian Minister of Education Mikheil Chkhenkeli, rector of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), George Shervashidze and Japanese Ambassador to Georgia, Tadaharu Uehara have planted some of the saplings in the inner yard of the 1st building of TSU.
The Embassy of Japan also gifted over 100 saplings of Sakura to Tbilisi last week. Most of them were planted in the National Botanical Garden of Georgia and some in the yards of various universities.
The Embassy of Japan also gifted over 100 saplings of Sakura to Tbilisi last week. Photo: National Botanical Garden of Georgia.
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