During a recent visit to Tokyo, Malaysia's trade minister called for further investment into the Southeast Asian country, which is celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Japan this year. In a seminar titled "Business opportunities in Malaysia" on April 12 at the Hotel ...
The 100-day Merit-making Grand Ceremony dedicated to His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand was conducted Saturday at The Royal Grand Hall of Buddhism at the Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Head Temple in Kato, Hyogo Prefecture. King Bhumibol passed away on Oct. 13 in ...
Indian nationals in Japan celebrated the 125th anniversary of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s birth on April 14 at the country’s embassy in Tokyo. In an event at the embassy’s Vivekananda Cultural Centre Auditorium, participants marked Ambedkar’s birthday and recalled his contribution to the founding of modern ...
Scenes and stories of contemporary Central America will be shared through films in Tokyo next week. The embassies of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua are organizing the Central American Film Festival as part of the events to celebrate 80 years of diplomatic ...
The embassy of Papua New Guinea held a reception to celebrate former Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare receiving an honorary award from Japan; the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, at the Hotel New Otani Tokyo on May 7. The reception was ...
Suntory Hall was filled with the sounds of music as Venezuelan maestro Gustavo Dudamel conducted students from Japan and the U.S. during a concert on March 29. The students are members of the Soma Children's Orchestra and Chorus; and the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), ...
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Japan and five Central American countries, a commemorative reception was held on March 25 in Tokyo. Co-organized by the embassies of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the event was attended by representatives of ...
A ceremony to celebrate the publication of the Japanese version of the works of Turkmen poet Magtymguly Pyragy was held on Nov. 20 in Tokyo. Magtymguly (1724-ca. 1807) was a Turkmen philosophical poet who made significant efforts to secure independence and autonomy for his people ...
Amid rising concern over volcanic eruptions, institutions from Italy and Japan signed a letter of intent on Wednesday to strengthen their cooperative framework to promote research and technological innovation in the field of earth science using elementary particles. On Nov. 12, an Italy-Japan bilateral workshop ...
Children and parents enjoyed Swedish products for kids during the Sweden Kids Week event last weekend at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo. It is an important opportunity for manufacturers to meet their users and listen to them, Swedish Ambassador Magnus Robach said to the ...
Sept. 23 is Lithuania's Holocaust Memorial Day that pays tribute to the victims of the destruction of Vilnius ghetto in 1943. Prior to this national memorial day remembering the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews, a presentation of a book on Jews who escaped wartime persecution by ...
A group of Mexican students gave speeches in Japanese at the Mexican Embassy last week to cap the month-long Japan-Mexico Student Exchange Program, which ran from July 12. As part of the projects commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the visit to Mexico of a Japanese ...
