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DESCRIPTION:The Osaka Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International and 
 Japan America Society of Chicago are excited to bring&nbsp\;<strong><em>Ki
 zuna: The Bonds of Emotion</em></strong><strong><em>\, Japan Earthquake Ph
 oto Exhibition</em>&nbsp\;</strong>to Chicago\, March 12 to March 31.\n\nO
 n Monday\, March 12\, a custom-curated photo exhibition of the Japanese ea
 rthquake and tsunami will open to the public in the lobby of the Thompson 
 Center\, State of Illinois Building\, at 100 W. Randolph Street in Chicago
 .\n\nThe Office of the Governor of Illinois and Consul General of Japan at
  Chicago Yoshifumi Okamura will lead in the opening ceremony at noon\, wel
 comed by Japanese children\, Japanese musicians\, the public and press cor
 ps. March 11\, 2012 has been officially proclaimed as&nbsp\;<strong>Japane
 se Earthquake Commemoration Day</strong>&nbsp\;in Illinois by Governor Pat
  Quinn.\n\nThe exhibition features photos taken in the Tohoku region by ph
 otojournalists from the leading Japanese business newspaper&nbsp\;<em>The 
 Nikkei</em>&nbsp\;in the immediate aftermath of the March 11\, 2011 earthq
 uake and tsunami\, and ongoing recovery efforts.&nbsp\;The photos included
  in Chicago's exhibition are 46 selected from more than 100.&nbsp\;They ar
 e paired in a subtle way to chronicle the catastrophe and then a similar o
 r related photo of the recovery process. The selections here vividly illus
 trate the human tragedy of this catastrophic disaster and the optimism and
  resilience of Japanese local citizens as they struggle to rebuild their l
 ives.\n\nThe title of the Chicago exhibition\,&nbsp\;<em>Kizuna: The Bonds
  of Emotion</em>\, uses a character and the word Kizuna to express the bon
 ds of caring and the outreach from every end of the globe to help the Japa
 nese people survive and recover from the unspeakable damage they endured.\
 n\nThese photographs are being exhibited in New York and London as well\, 
 all made possible through the generous cooperation of Nikkei Inc. which as
 ks us to recreate their photography collection's theme of<em>Memory &ndash
 \; Things We Should Never Forget</em>.\n\nThe exhibition will remain in th
 e Thompson Center from March 12 to March 16\, and then it moves to The Chi
 cago Photography Collective Gallery at Block 37 from March 21 to March 31.
  It is free and open to the public.\n\nhttp://www.globenewswire.com/newsro
 om/news.html?d=247689
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SUMMARY:Kizuna: The Bonds of Emotion\, Japan Earthquake Photo Exhibition
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