Under the spreading Lithuanian umbrella. Hard to get it, but we try
originally written for a journalism class in Vilnius University faculty of Communication Foreigners who live in Lithuania are connected by one of the richest national treasure of this country -Lithuanian language. It was revealed by the poetical concert called “Under the umbrella of Lithuanian language and culture(Po lietuvių kalbos ir kultūros skėčiu)” which took place on May 19th in Šv. Kotrynos bažnyčia. Regardless of...
“Persona Non Grata” to release publicly in Japan
“Persona Non Grata” finished its world premier in Kaunas, Lithuania and Japan premier in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. From 5th December, its public release is to start. Main actor Toshiaki Karasawa portraying Chiune Sugihara, main actress Koyuki portraying Yukiko Sugihara and Director Cellin Gluck came to premier at Waseda University on 24th November. Once Chiune Sugihara studied there, and majored in English language...
Sugihara Lists to aim for in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
Yaotsu town, located in Kamo county, Gifu prefecture,central Japan, is the birthplace of Chiune Sugihara. He was born in small cozy town in 1900 and spent his childhood surrounded by nature. On 31th October, governor of Gifu prefecture, Hajime Furuta and Mayer of Yaotsu town, Shingo Akatsuka visited to Kaunas, Lithuania. Yaotsu is seeking for adding Sugihara’s records to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. At Sugihara House...
NowJapan: Japanese cultural festival growing year by year
The Baltics-largest Japanese cultural festival “NowJapan”took place on this September 26-27th . The venue, LITEXPO in Vilnius, was full of Lithuanian youth with his own costume of cosplay. Japanese culture which “NowJapan” introduced to visitors are from the area of pop culture, for instance, Anime, Manga and Cosplay to the area of Japanese traditional culture like Japanese cuisine, Ikebana, calligraphy and...
Reportage: call their names in Lithuania
On 22 September, Baltic Asia’s newly joined co-editor, Yasufumi Nakashima, an exchange student from Japan at Vilnius University, took part of ceremony regarding “names” at the historical site of former Vilnius Ghetto. He wrote a reportage about what he has experienced.