On 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 […]

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Haruna Akagi, Cherry blossoms in Lithuania, 2013 This is a book about Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese Consul who worked in Kaunas, Lithuania at the beginning of World War II. Consisting of two parts, the book tells about the Consul’s life in Kaunas as well as his struggle to save Jewish people from Nazi aggression. The […]