(From left) Takahiro Nakamae, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Latin-American and Caribbean; Jorge Barakat, Administrator of Panama Maritime Authority; the Rev. Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, archbishop of Tokyo; and Panama Ambassador Ritter Diaz and his wife, Ayana, celebrate World Youth Day 2019 in Panama at the ambassador's residence on April 10. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Lao Ambassador Viroth Sundara (left) and his wife, Simuang, celebrate the Laotian new year, or Buddhist year 2561 at the Lao Embassy in Tokyo on April 15. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Bangladesh Ambassador Rabab Fatima (second from left) welcomes (from left) Tongan Ambassador Tania Laumanulupe Tupou, Zambian Ambassador Ndiyoi Mutiti and Slovenian Ambassador Simona Leskovar during a Boishakhi lunch to celebrate Bangladesh's new year-1425 at Bangladesh House Terrace on April 20. | COURTESY OF THE BANGLADESH EMBASSY
Opera singer Kazuhiro Kotetsu (center) poses for a photo with (from left) Min On Concert Association President Kazuto Ito, Macedonian Ambassador Andrijana Cvetkovikj and members of the Macedonian musician group Dumardija to mark the 24th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Macedonia and Japan on April 20 in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. | COURTESY OF THE MACEDONIAN EMBASSY
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf (center) and Queen Silvia (left) sits near Swedish Ambassador to Japan Magnus Robach (right) at an event to mark 150 years of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Japan at the embassy on April 22. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
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