13015394_1031256903615136_9163507099119778924_nOn April 16th one of the biggest newspapers in Japan Asahi Shimbun published an article based on VMU Centre for Asian Studies head Dr. Aurelijus Zykas. Article mainly contains information about newly published Japanese-Lithuanian dictionary. Article can be found here.

Akiyoshi Komaki, author of the article, recently visited Kaunas and talked with some of the Japanese-Lithuanian dictionary creators. The fact, which surprised him the most was that Dr. Aurelijus Zykas gathered information for the dictionary in 12 years using English, Russian, Spanish dictionaries, encyclopedias and synonyms dictionaries.