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PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar left for Japan on a four-day visit along with an 11-member team on Sunday. The CM is accompanied by road construction department (RCD) minister Nand Kishore Yadav, officials and members of trade and industry bodies. The team will visit Tokyo and Osaka.“The CM, RCD minister and some officials left for New Delhi by a service flight around 2.35pm on Sunday. Prominent among them were the party’s national general secretary (organisation) and Rajya Sabha member R C P Singh, rural development minister Shravan Kumar, party’s state president Bashishtha Narain Singh, Lok Sabha member Santosh Kushwaha, MLCs Devesh Chandra Thakur, Neeraj Kumar and Ranvir Nandan and State Food Corporation member Nand Kishore Kushwaha. They will make presentations to invite investments in sectors like industries, tourism and infrastructure,” Yadav, who is lone minister in the 11-member delegation, said hours before leaving for New Delhi.He said the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is already providing a financial assistance of Rs 3,000 crore for development of the Patna-Gaya-Dobhi and Gaya-Rajgir-Biharsharif four-lane road projects..