Japan – Baltic design week MADE IN JAPAN is here!
Opening concert of the Japan – Baltic design week MADE IN JAPAN: accordion talent from Lithuania Martynas Levickis and his colleagues from Japan – Taca and Aco – will impress You with the one and only multicultural performance. Piano.lt concert hall, Vilnius, 19:00, October 21, 2015. Tickets are available at sale points and the website of “Bilietų pasaulis”. Event is a part of the project “Tekančios saulės scena”...
Movie about Chiune Sugihara world première in Kaunas and Vilnius
This year marks the 75th anniversary since Vice-Consul of the Consulate of Japan Chiune Sugihara issued Japanese visas to Jewish people that were fleeing from Holocaust during the Second World War. In Lithuania, various events are organized to commemorate the anniversary, one of them being the world première of “Persona Non Grata”, a film made in Japan about Chiune Sugihara. It is going to be aired on October 13th in...
KSI open lectures course ‘Korean Society & Culture’
King Sejong Institute invites to open lectures course “Korean Society & Culture” (Part III) (Autumn Semester 2015). Topics of the lectures: 1) “South Korea’s economic miracle: the country 50 years ago and now” ( 2015 SEP 17) 2) “The core values of South Korea’s society: Confucianism and its daily manifestation” (2015 SEP 24) 3) “Being part of South Korean society: family,...
Lithuania Explores Forging Relations with ASEAN
JAKARTA, 28 August 2015 — Lithuania today expressed its interest in establishing cooperation with ASEAN and its Member States. Foreign Minister of Lithunia, H.E. Linas Antanas Linkevičius, said that his country is conducting a study to identify areas of possible cooperation with ASEAN as well as within the ASEAN-European Union dialogue framework. Minister Linkevičius conveyed this when he called on Secretary-General of ASEAN,...
Embassy of Japan Commemorative Events for the 75th anniversary of ‘Visas for life’
Commemorative events of the 75th anniversary of ‘Visas for life’ issued by Vice-Consul Mr. Chiune Sugihara organized by the Embassy of Japan This year marks the 75th anniversary of ‘Visas for life.’ In 1940, Mr. Chiune Sugihara, who was Vice-Consul of the Consulate of Japan at Kaunas from 1939 to 1940, in cooperation with Dutch Honorary Consul Mr. Jan Zwartendijk, issued Japanese visas to Jewish people and saved thousands of lives. In...