Japanese and Tunisian artists pose for a photograph during the opening ceremony of an exhibition titled "Inspiring Tunisia" at Chiyoda Kumin Hall on March 12. Pictured (from left) are Tunisian Ambassador Kais Darragi; Foreign Minister Taro Kono's wife, Kaori; Kiyoshi Ejima, chairman of the Special Committee on Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake and member of the Japan-Tunisia Parliamentary Committee; artist Hideyuki Ozawa; and Chiyoda Mayor Masami Ishikawa. The exhibition is on display through March 22. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Bulgarian Ambassador Borislav Kostov (second from left) makes a toast in celebration of Bulgaria's national day (March 3) at the ambassador's residence on March 7 with (from left) Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Manabu Horii; Kazunori Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan-Bulgaria Friendship League; New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi and Hiromi Yoshida, president of the Japan-Bulgaria Friendship Association. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Cunard Line Japan Director Tokumasa Kojima (right) poses with (from left) Bob Dixon, director of Cunard's European, Middle Eastern, Asian and Latin American operations; Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi; and Michio Kikuchi, director-general of the Ports and Harbors Bureau under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism at the British ambassador' s residence during the unveiling of the timetable of the "2020 Queen Elizabeth" cruise on March 9. | YOSHIAKI MIURA