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This May, a new Lithuanian book about Japan was released. It is called “Japonijos spalvos ir skoniai” or in English – “The colours and the taste of Japan” and is one of the few literary works published by a Lithuanian author about this country. The piece colourfully depicts a wonderful, versatile and rich heritage, people […]

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On 30th of January, Ambassador of Japan in Lithuania H.E. Kazuko Shiraishi paid a visit to the Center for Asian Studies where she met a director of VMU Library Ms. Lina Bloveščiūnienė. During the visit, Her Excellency officially presented 200 books for Chiune Sugihara Reading Room, donated by Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimura, Vice-Minister of the Minister Cabinet […]

On 2011  November 7  the book exhibition “They restored Asian Studies in Lithuania” will be opened in Vytautas Magnus University, in the hall  in front of V. Biržiška reading room (K. Donelaičio str. 52, 2nd floor) . This exhibition hosts written, edited and translated books by Prof. A. Andrijauskas, Dr. R. Neimantas and A. Ališauskas.These three […]

This year the library of Vytautas Magnus University is donated a significant collection of publications on Asian and African country topics, compiled by the famous Lithuanian orientalist Dr. Romualdas Neimantas (1939-2009) during his lifetime. The collection consists of more than a thousand scientific and fiction books about Asian and African cultures in Russian, Lithuanian, English, […]