VIDEO: Setsubun holiday – beginning of t...

On February 8, 2026 at IROHA Armenian-Japanese Educational and Cultural Exchange Center there took place the event Setsubun.　At the begining, the attendees were told about the holiday in Armenian with slide show. Details in the video Then the attendees divided in the 2 separate rooms and prepared the ehomaki with their own hands, but of course under the instruction of the teachers. Details in the videos After which together looking at the direction of that year and keeping silence, they ate the ehomaki they had prepered. Details in the video After that was the...

PHOTO:Political consultations between th...

On February 3, political consultations were held in Tokyo between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and Japan, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mnatsakan Safaryan and Deputy Assistant Minister, Deputy Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Masaki Ishikawa. During the consultations, the parties discussed a wide range of issues in bilateral agenda, including the existing dialogue оn political, trade and economic, technological, educational and cultural, tourism and...

Japanese volume about Diana Abgar

Tokyo’s Fujiwara Shoten publishing house has released the Japanese-language work by Meline Mesropyan and Arisa Ohta, “The Diaspora Living in Japan: Diana Abgar and the Armenian Genocide.”This is the first work in Japanese about Diana Abgar (1859–1937), the Japan-based businesswoman, publicist, philanthropist, and Honorary Consul of Armenia in Japan. As Meline Mesropyan noted in her Facebook post: “In 2012, when I began this study, there was almost no scholarly literature on Diana Abgar’s life in Japan.” There were almost no articles at all, and among the few...