The following is excerpted from a 30 September 2011 report by the World Customs Organization.
At the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of the WCO Kunio Mikuriya spoke at the International Symposium on the Global Perspective of Intellectual Property Strategy and Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster that was held in Sendai, Japan on 30 September 2011 together with other government representatives. Sendai is the economic centre of the region affected by the earthquake and tsunami disaster on 11 March 2011.
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