Japan ready to boost ties with Armenia, ...

January 31, 2017 PanARMENIAN.Net - Japan is ready to strengthen and develop ties with Armenia in every area of cooperation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the visiting Armenian parliament speaker Galust Sahakyan. At the meeting, the Prime Minister said that the Armenian-Japanese interparliamentary partnership has been passing through important stages of development in recent years, sure to leave a positive impact on cooperation between the two countries. The Armenian speaker, in turn, expressed hope that the already efficient cooperation will further deepen on...

MES RA Uses the Experience of Japan: The...

25.01.2017 On January 25, in the frameworks of the program “Landslide Disaster Management in RA” at the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia took place the meeting of the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC), which was headed by the acting Minister of Emergency Situations of RA Haykaram Mkhitaryan and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Republic of Armenia Eiji Taguchi. The goal of the meeting was to present the results of the final assessment of the program “Landslide Disaster Management in the Republic of...

On 19.01.2017 Armenian Songs with Violin...

Jan 19: Armenian Songs with violin, percussion and vocal. Komitas, A.Khachaturyan, T.Mansourian, A.Kartalyan … and the first performance of “Seven Armenian Songs” by Gabriela L. Frank. Excellent performance in Yokohama, thank you Movses, Kuniko and Tony! Next concert is on Jan 20 in Toyohashi city. the material is taken from Embassy of Armenia to...

Materials in Japanese about Diana Abgar

From the editor: – The author of the article, the Japanese historian, translator Daisaku Watanabe has studied at the Department of Cultures and Languages of Asia and Africa of Tokyo University of Foreign Languages. He has attended courses of the Armenian language in Tokyo, Venice and Yerevan. In Tokyo, he has written a Diploma Paper with the subject “The Armenian Society in Raffi’s Novel “The Crazy”. In 2011-2013 Watanabe continued his studies in Armenia. In 2015, there was published his Japanese translation of the book of the American-Armenian historian George...

The Armenian-Japanese Family Highlights ...

translated from Armenian into English by M.Vardanyan

For those who Love Japan: an Excerpt fro...

He was born on November 25, 1957, in the USA, in the family of Armenians who have survived from the Genocide and have settled down in Visalia town of California, USA. In the summer of 1972, fifteen years old Monte Melkonyan finishes secondary school. Before the beginning of the new academic year at high school, with the suggestion of the school headmaster David Grimes he leaves for Japan to continue his education in the most prestigious school of the country – “Tokyo Kamata High School”. The decision to sent Monte to Japan wasn’t made by chance: for a long time he...

On New Year’s Eve at Mother See of Holy ...

Under the presidency of His Holiness Garegin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians there has been approved a new order of blessing. According to it, every year, on New Year’s Eve, at 00:30 o’clock in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and in all the churches of the Armenian Church at the end of the Prayer of Thanks there will be offered the service of pomegranate blessing. It is reported from the Information Center of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. In the Armenian tradition, as a national symbol pomegranate has the meaning of life, blossom and...