State Minister of Environment of Japan, Tadahiko Ito is scheduled to arrive in Kathmandu on July 18 for a two day official visit of Nepal.

Minister Ito is also the Vice President of Japan-Nepal parliamentarian Friendship League.

During the visit, Minister Ito will meet Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepali Congress senior leader and President of the Nepal Japan Parliamentary Friendship Association Ram Chandra Poudel, Nepal Reconstruction Authority CEO Govinda Raj Pokharel and former Minister of Industry Nabindra Raj Joshi.

Likewise on the second day of his visit, the Japanese minister will inspect the reconstructed Shree Path Pradarsak Secondary School  at Lalitpur, Kathmandu Durbar Square and will also attend the plenary session of "Stakeholders Meeting on Disaster Waste Management following Earthquake in Nepal", in Kathmandu organised by the Ministry of Environment of Government of Japan.