July 6, 2015
City of Toronto representative Councillor Michael Thompson (Ward 37 Scarborough Centre), Chair of the Economic Development Committee, was joined by several Japanese dignitaries at an event today honouring the Friendship City agreement between Toronto and the City of Sagamihara, Japan. The Deputy Mayor of Sagamihara, Hiroaki Koike; Sagamihara's Council Chair, Yoshihiro Abe; the Consul-General of Japan in Toronto, Yasunori Nakayama; and Councillor Thompson celebrated a Sakura (cherry blossom) tree-planting project in Toronto.
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