Vietnam Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong (sixth from left) and former Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Iwao Matsuda (sixth from right) join Director General of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam Nguyen Trung Khanh (fifth from left), Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Mitsunari Okamoto (fourth from right) and other participants during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Vietnam Festival 2018 in Yoyogi Park on May 19. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Israeli Ambassador Yaffa Ben-Ari (center) welcomes State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kentaro Sonoura (left), and Komeito chief Natsuo Yamaguchi during a reception to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel's independence at the Israeli ambassador's residence on May 14. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Gediminas Varvuolis, ambassador of Lithuania (far left), poses with (from second left) Hirofumi Nakasone, president of the Japan-Lithuania Parliamentary Friendship League; Darius Skusevicius, vice minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania; and Michimasa Oe, president of Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd. during a reception to celebrate the release of a book titled "The History of Lithuania" in Japanese at the Lithuanian Embassy on May 15. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
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