The Japanese Community in Dublin, in association with Dublin City Council and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, held an event to commemorate the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami and to provide an opportunity for people to show Ireland’s solidarity with Japan. The event took place in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday 11 April 2011 at 7pm. Experience Japan, a group organizing a celebration of Japanese culture in April 2011, coordinated this commemorative event.