EU Delegation in Tokyo commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Japan - EU Partnership Agreement. The agreement has greatly facilitated the export of EU products to Japan and boosted business relations. The event featured products from ten EU countries currently successfully exported to Japan. Among them, we have presented Lithuanian smart sonar Deeper, which has been imported to the country for three years already. Deeper products are used not only by fishermen but by Japanese companies, too – including TEPCO, the Tokyo power grid operator.

Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Japan has the pleasure to announce a concert by violinist Ms Žydrė Ovsiukaitė, on the Occasion of the Day of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania, which will take place on Friday, February 14th, 2020, at 19:00 (doors open at 18:30) at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, 3-7-18 Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0046.

After the concert, guests will be invited for a glass of wine and snacks.

To register, we kindly ask You to complete a short registration form: https://forms.gle/4LTKhFAA7KvwhRJx9

Due to limited space available, the registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

At the ASEM Transport Ministers' meeting in Budapest, Lithuania's Deputy Minister of Transport, G. Mažeika met with Japan's Deputy Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Wada Masamune. G. Mažeika presented the major Lithuanian transport infrastructure projects - Rail Baltica and Klaipeda State Seaport development and opportunities for Japanese businesses to participate. The Vice-Ministers of both countries signed a Memorandum of Intent on cooperation in the field of transport.

 

On 13 December, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Australia Gediminas Varvuolis opened the Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Darwin. Mrs Egle Garrick, an active member of the Lithuanian World Community, was appointed as the Honorary Consul of Lithuania in the Northern Territory.

On 11 December, Lithuania was presented at Jakarta International Women's Club Charity Bazaar. For the first time at this Bazaar Lithuanian stand was installed, in cooperation between the Embassy of Lithuania in Tokyo and the Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Jakarta.

The patron of the event, First Lady of Indonesia, visited Lithuanian stand, where she was presented with Lithuanian crafts and food products.

On 10 December, the Ambassador of Lithuania Gediminas Varvuolis presented his letters of credence to the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi.

Ambassador Gediminas Varvuolis visited laser exhibition Photonix 2019 and met with a delegation of Lithuanian laser manufacturers. The delegation arrived on the occasion of a business mission organised by Enterprise Lithuania and have met with Lithuanian laser distributors in Japan. Together with the representatives of the companies, Ambassador visited Japanese distributors' booths where Lithuanian laser products are exhibited, attracting great interest from the attendees of the exhibition. Lithuania has been exporting scientific and industrial lasers to Japan for more than 20 years and in 2018 have exported lasers worth 15 million €.