Shen Ssu-tsun (third from right), representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, and his wife, Enid (second from right) welcome (from left), Secretary-General of the Democratic Party Yukio Edano; former State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobuo Kishi; Chairman of the Interchange Association, Japan Mitsuo Ohashi; and Ko So-min, member of Taiwan's Executive Yuan Overseas Community Affairs Council, during a reception to celebrate the assumption of office of the 14th President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, and Vice President Chen Chien-jin at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Tokyo on May 20. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
From left, Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Albania Armand Shandro and Charge d'affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo Rudina Bukoshi pose with pianists Lule Elezi (Kosovo) and Merita Rexha Tershana (Albania); sopranos Marigona Qerkezi (Kosovo) and Dorina Selimaj (Albania); and embassy Financial Manager Andi Demo following the "Albania and Kosovo Classical Music Concert" held to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Alabania and Japan and the 7th Anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Kosovo and Japan at Oji Hall, Ginza, on May 18. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
President, Representative Director and Chief Operating Officer of Nifco Inc. Toshiyuki Yamamoto (right) hands The Japan Times President Takeharu Tsutsumi a ¥10,000,000 donation for The Japan Times Readers' Fund that will go to support Kumamoto earthquake victims at the newspaper's headquarters in Tokyo on May 25. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
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