VMU Centre for Asian Studies together with Fukuyama Transporting. Co and its Komaru Kotsu Foundation invites all to the official ceremony of donation of books that will mark the opening of Komaru Bunko – a special collection of books dedicated to Japanese studies and curated by the Foundation. The event will be taking place on […]
The Centre for Asian studies received a generous donation of books from our new partner in Japan, Hiroshima university. The majority of the books are concentrated on Japanese and Chinese languages, literatures. The books will be placed at the Asian Books Space and used during lectures and various activities related to East Asian studies. Hiroshima […]
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange approved the Library expansion project which was submitted this autumn. According to the project, during upcoming 3 years Asian Books Space will acquire publications for 9000 USD. Books will be dedicated to Chinese studies – from Chinese language workbooks to monographs on Chinese politics, history, culture, etc. This […]
VMU Centre for Asian Studies Chiune Sugihara Reading Room enters the last stage of moving to other premises. Today, the part of the Reading Room, dedicated to Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences, was started to crate. The funds of Reading Room will be available since autumn. Sorry for temporary inconveniences.
A book donation from Prof Kumiko Yamada at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan) is now already available publicly at Ch. Sugihara Reading Room at VMU Centre for Asian Studies. 110 books (33 of them in English) from her personal collection. This donation consists of various publications on literature, art, history, religion and other topics. Centre for […]
A personal collection of books by Dr. Agnė Budriūnaitė was recently added to the funds of Ch. Sugihara Reading Room. All the visitors are welcome to use a wide variety of books on Philosophy, Religion, Culture. Prof Budriūnaitė was a fellow researcher in VMU Centre for Asian Studies. Her primary field of interest was Taoism […]
Since 2014 November 28 VMU Centre for Asian Studies is a member of Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) Hub library program. Participating in this program is extremely beneficial because LTI Korea donates translated Korean books to its members. On the 5th of January Centre for Asian Studies received the first donation – 42 […]
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Recently, Center for Asian studies successfully completed second stage of Ch. Sugihara‘s reading room expansion program, funded by Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation (CCKF). During second year, various books on China‘s and Taiwan‘s history, philosophy, social sciences and comparative research were bought, with total sum exceeding 2500 €. CCKF for International Scholarly Exchange is a nonprofit organization […]
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 […]
