Mention Argentina, and two stereotypes spring to mind: soccer and beef.
Norma Diaz de Polski, wife of the Argentine ambassador to Japan, works to make Argentina more widely and truly known here. She has been giving lectures about the country's different regions and indigenous people. Recently she created a garden to exhibit in the World Gardening Fair presented at the Hotel Okura, Tokyo. That was part of her mission to show a little-known and original aspect of Argentina.
De Polski was her parents' only child, who received all the advantages and none of the disadvantages of being a single child. She said: "My father was a lawyer who was very interested in literature and the humanities. I used to sit with him, and we read poems together. I did my first translation with him. I had all the attention of my parents as they tried to open my mind. They said if I wanted to study abroad I should go and not think about them. They left me many important values."