A Macedonian diplomat is on a mission to set up his country's first embassy in Tokyo all by himself.

"In the last 20 years, Macedonia started building its diplomatic network from scratch. It took some time before we had embassies in all European countries. Now the time has finally come to do it in Japan," said Bojan Petrovski, a third secretary at the Macedonian Embassy in Austria.

Petrovski, 28, has been working full-time on his one-man mission in Tokyo since August last year.