Soccer Sep 15, 2021
Former Japan international Keisuke Honda to join Suduva in Lithuania
Lithuania will be the eighth country abroad in his playing career which included a spell at Italian giant AC Milan between 2014 and 2017.
Asia Pacific Jul 21, 2021
Taiwan angers China with first Europe office using its name
by Cindy Wang, Iain Marlow and Aaron Eglitis
Lithuania has backed Taiwan before, donating COVID-19 vaccines and supporting participation in the World Health Assembly.
National Jul 9, 2021
Olympian from Lithuania suspected of having COVID-19 after arrival in Japan
The Lithuanian athlete had trained in a pool before the test result came back positive Friday morning and health authorities are determining who may have come into close contact with him.
National Oct 15, 2020
Campaigners are raising funds to preserve the former office of a Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during World War II.
World / Politics Aug 22, 2020
U.S. No. 2 diplomat to visit Russia and Lithuania to discuss Belarus
The No. 2 U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday, as Washington seeks a peaceful resolution to that country's election crisis that averts Russian intervention. Deputy Secretary of State Steve Biegun's planned ...
National / History Aug 10, 2020
Jewish refugee's wartime escape from Nazis, aided by Japan diplomat, highlights unsung heroes
by Magdalena Osumi
Around 300 people are believed to have traveled through Japan with visas issued by Yoshitsugu Tatekawa and other Japanese officials.
Asia Pacific Sep 3, 2019
Lithuania criticizes Chinese diplomats for raucous behavior at pro-Hong Kong protest
Lithuania said on Monday it had lodged a protest with the Chinese Embassy after some of its diplomats were involved in disruptions at a pro-Hong Kong protest in the capital of Vilnius last month. Lithuania's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Chinese diplomats acted ...
Basketball | HOOP SCOOP Aug 2, 2019
Bill Bradley details Chiune Sugihara's heroism in award-winning radio documentary
by Ed Odeven
Bill Bradley, captain of the U.S. gold medal-winning basketball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was recently involved in another winning (and historically important) project with ties to Japan. And it has nothing to do with basketball. The weekly satellite radio program "American Voices with Senator ...
World Sep 24, 2018
Pope pays tribute to hundreds of thousands of victims of Nazis, Soviets in Lithuania
Pope Francis paid tribute on Sunday to Jews killed by the Nazis and victims of murder and deportation by the Soviet KGB, in twin visits to memorials marking the darkest periods of Lithuania's history. On the 75th anniversary of the wartime liquidation of the Vilnius ...
World / Politics Jan 18, 2017
Lithuania to build fence along Kaliningrad border, fearful of Russian 'little green men'
Lithuania plans to build a 2-meter-high wire fence along its border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad, its interior minister said on Tuesday, amid continued tensions between Moscow and the Baltic states, which are members of NATO. Eimutis Misiunas acknowledged that such a fence would ...
World Sep 8, 2016
Isolated Russian outpost Kaliningrad withers under confrontation with West
The Baltic Sea outpost of Kaliningrad was once touted as Russia's future Hong Kong: separated from the mainland, with a special status that would allow it to thrive through trade. But for Igor Pleshkov, who employs 300 workers in a cement factory in this region ...
World Feb 7, 2016
NATO plans biggest build-up against Russia since the Cold War
Backed by an increase in U.S. military spending, NATO is planning its biggest build-up in Eastern Europe since the Cold War to deter Russia, but it will reject Polish demands for permanent bases. Worried since Russia's seizure of Crimea that Moscow could rapidly invade Poland ...