Left to right: PTA Chairman, Atsubumi Taguchi; First Chairman of the Board of Directors Tsuneo Hayakawa; Rira Tsutsumi, student council representative; Head of School Trent Citrano; Suguru Yasuoka, student council representative; Former Governor of Chiba Prefecture Akiko Domoto; Chairman of the Board of Directors Kenichi Fukaya; and Director Kenichi Ishii at a commemorative tree-planting ceremony for the 10th annniversary of the Makuhari International School in Chiba Prefecture on May 15. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Left to right: PTA Chairman, Atsubumi Taguchi; First Chairman of the Board of Directors Tsuneo Hayakawa; Rira Tsutsumi, student council representative; Head of School Trent Citrano; Suguru Yasuoka, student council representative; Former Governor of Chiba Prefecture Akiko Domoto; Chairman of the Board of Directors Kenichi Fukaya; and Director Kenichi Ishii at a commemorative tree-planting ceremony for the 10th annniversary of the Makuhari International School in Chiba Prefecture on May 15. | YOSHIAKI MIURA


Left to right: Malaysia Ambassador to Japan Dato Kennedy Jawan; Brunei Darussalam Ambassador to Japan Haji Shahbudin Haji Musa; Secretary-General of ASEAN-Japan Centre Masataka Fujita; Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi; and Indonesian Ambassador to Japan Arifin Tasrif, during a media conference for the ASEAN update lecture
Left to right: Malaysia Ambassador to Japan Dato Kennedy Jawan; Brunei Darussalam Ambassador to Japan Haji Shahbudin Haji Musa; Secretary-General of ASEAN-Japan Centre Masataka Fujita; Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi; and Indonesian Ambassador to Japan Arifin Tasrif, during a media conference for the ASEAN update lecture "ASEAN-Japan: Partnership for Growth'' at the ASEAN-Japan Hall of the ASEAN-Japan Centre in Tokyo on May 15. | PHOTO COURTESY OF ASEAN-JAPAN CENTRE


Folklore musicians Los Kjarkas play at the 120th Anniversary of the Japanese Immigration to Bolivia concert at Tiara Koto concert hall in Tokyo on May 18. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Folklore musicians Los Kjarkas play at the 120th Anniversary of the Japanese Immigration to Bolivia concert at Tiara Koto concert hall in Tokyo on May 18. | YOSHIAKI MIURA


Los Kjarkas poses with Angela Karin Ayllon Quisbert, Bolivian charge d'affaires ad interim (center row, second from right); Hidejiro Mimura, president of the association of cultural exchange between Latin America and Japan (center row, left); and members of the Bolivian embassy staff with family. | PHOTO COURTESY OF BOLIVIA EMBASSY
Los Kjarkas poses with Angela Karin Ayllon Quisbert, Bolivian charge d’affaires ad interim (center row, second from right); Hidejiro Mimura, president of the association of cultural exchange between Latin America and Japan (center row, left); and members of the Bolivian embassy staff with family. | PHOTO COURTESY OF BOLIVIA EMBASSY