Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus recently visited the Tsunami affected areas in Tohoku, Japan. He was invited to participate at the official first anniversary of the great Tsunami disaster on March 11. The earthquake, which caused 5 to 8 meters upthrust on a 180-km wide seabed at 60 km offshore from the east coast of Tōhoku on March 11, 2011, and resulted the major tsunami that brought destruction along the Pacific coastline of Japan's northern islands and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and devastated entire towns. It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, which caused major nuclear threats.
 Professor Yunus addressed the open-air candle-light citizens' gathering, organised as the main part of the official ceremony, at the Sendai City Hall Memorial Service to express his condolences for the Tsunami struck population. He delivered a speech at the Tohoku University, which is a leading university in the world in developing new technologies, the need for citizens' effort to help the disaster prone population in Tohoku region. He received an honorary degree from the University.
Professor Yunus visited the neighbouring Natori city whose residential area close to the beach was totally eliminated including the residence of the mayor of the city. He addressed the national meeting of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, on his experience of social business to meet the pressing social needs.
He also attended the Public Symposium at Aomori Chuo Gakuin University, in Aomori city. Professor Yunus' visit to all the cities of Tohoku region was presented by the Japanese national TV NHK through a special program. | 
The 12 individuals are: 1) Steve Jobs of Apple, 2) Bill Gates of Microsoft, 3) Fred Smith of FedEx, 4) Jeff Bezos of Amazon 5) Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, 6) Howard Schultz of Starbucks, 7) Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, 8) John Mackey of Whole Foods, 9) Herb Kelleher of SouthWest Airlines, 10) Narayana Murthy of Infosys, 11) Sam Walton of Wal-mart Stores, 12) Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank
The plant was inaugurated at the hands of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Muhammad Yunus and Mrs. Saori Dubourg, President Asia Pacific, BASF, at a public function held at the plant premises.
Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed a roundtable meeting organised to allow the top executives of the bank to exchange ideas with him, by the President of the European Investment Bank, Mr. Werner Hoyer at his office on March 5, 2012 in Luxembourg. Professor Muhammad Yunus elaborated the concept of social business to the group and proposed various actions by the bank to facilitate social businesses. President Hoyer showed his deep interest in playing a pioneering role as facilitator of Social Business in Europe. He also expressed his interest in creating a fund to support social businesses. Other than the president, several senior officials of EIB group took part in the discussion, including Vice President Plutarchos Sakellaris, CEO of the European Investment Fund, Richard Pelly, Director General Operations outside European Union, Tamsyn Barton, Rémy Jacob, Dean of EIB Institute.
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