Japan

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North Korea threatens Japan. Worrying rhetoric or “nothing new under this sun”?

North Korea's weapons testing activity this year has reached the highest level in recent years. Since the end of March,…

2 years ago
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Nobuki Sugihara to attend the opening exhibition in memory of his father

The Seimas opens the exhibition commemorating Chiune Sugihara’s 120th birthday anniversary and the 80th anniversary of Sugihara’s “visas for life”…

5 years ago
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ナウセーダ大統領は天皇陛下「即位礼正殿の儀」に参列します

リトアニア大統領、ギターナス・ナウセーダ(55)と、ディアナ・ナウセディエネ(フィーストレディ)夫妻は10月21~24日の4日間の日程で日本を公式に訪問します。22日(火)には新しい天皇陛下の御即位を内外に披露する「即位礼正殿の儀」に参列します。大統領府公式サイトが発表しました。 [...]

5 years ago
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リトアニア、輸送・通信分野で日本からの投資に期待

リトアニアは日本からの投資を誘致し、国際貨物輸送の経由地として機能する事に期待する。9月18日(水)同国のヤロスラフ・ナルケビッチ運輸通信大臣が記者会見で述べました。ナルケビッチ大臣はこの日リトアニアを訪問した国際協力銀行(JBIC)の代表団と今後の投資プロジェクトの可能性について意見交換を行いました [...]

5 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette conferred upon Vytautas Grubliauskas

On 3 November 2018, the Government of Japan announced that Mr. Vytautas Grubliauskas was conferred with The Order of the…

6 years ago
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Chiune Sugihara’s legacy-inspired cultural diplomacy

Chiune Sugihara’s legacy continues to live on, reverberating in new culturally significant and socially beneficial ways. [...]

7 years ago
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Government decides to move agricultural attache from Russia to Japan

The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to relocate the post of agricultural attache from Russia to Japan. [...]

7 years ago
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Lithuania’s ambassador to Japan proposed as envoy to Ireland

Lithuania's government on Wednesday gave a green light to appointing Egidijus Meilūnas, Lithuanian diplomat completing his ambassadorial term in Japan,…

7 years ago
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Ambassador to Japan moving to Ireland

Lithuanian diplomat Egidijus Meilūnas is completing his ambassadorial term in Japan and should be appointed as diplomatic envoy to Ireland.…

7 years ago
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The Third World War will start sooner

George Friedman - one of the smartest geopolitics scientist in the United States predicted the Third World War will start…

7 years ago
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Why the Japanese feel like at home in Lithuania?

Japan is increasingly becoming familiar with Lithuania, with Lithuanian poultry exporters receiving permits to sell their produce in Japan, the…

8 years ago
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A Japanese who wants the Japanese to love Lithuania

The ‘Global Lithuanian Awards 2016’ sees Tamaki Kenjiro nominated for the award of ‘Global Friend of Lithuania’. He established the…

8 years ago
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Japanese ships on historic first visit at Lithuanian port

The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Training Squadron is arriving in the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda on Monday on the first…

8 years ago
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Lithuania’s export volumes bounce back

First quarter's foreign trade of Lithuanian businesses has been equal to 40% of last year‘s volumes, shows the latest analysis…

8 years ago
  • Opinion

How Putin’s western front thwarted pivot to the East

Over the past several years, whenever Moscow entered into a difficult encounter on the Western “front,” it has typically tried…

8 years ago
  • Society

The late coming of spring in Vilnius

In most parts of the world, starting a conversation with references to the weather is considered pretty banal. Not so…

8 years ago
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Asia’s rise, Russia, and the future of the global order

This week, Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Australian prime minister, will be visiting Moscow.…

8 years ago
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Lithuanian scientist nominated for European Inventor of the Year

Lithuanian scientist, professor Arminas Ragauskas has been nominated for the European Inventor Award, the first Lithuanian ever to be nominated…

8 years ago
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Lithuania Education system ‘needs change to compete with leading countries’

The Lithuanian education system needs to be changed starting with kindergartens to have any chance of competing with the academic…

8 years ago
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Lithuanian company to export organic hemp to Japan

Lithuanian Organic hemp grower UAB Agropro is entering the Japanese market.Up to now 95% of all of the company‘s products…

8 years ago