According to a press release issued by Nepali embassy in Japan, it will take a week, until April 25, for all its functions including consular, passport and visa services to come into full operation from Tokyo. [break]
On March 18, the embassy had been moved from Tokyo to Osaka amid fear of possible health threats caused by radioactive materials released after a powerful explosion of a nuclear reactor in Phukusima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)´s decided to move the embassy to a safer location came after Western countries started evacuating their nationals and moving their embassies to safer sites in the aftermath of the radiation leakage from Fukushima Power Station following a tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.
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