Jau tradiciškai Kaunas rudenį pasitinka varpų muzika: net dvi dienas, rugsėjo 2–3 d., Vytauto Didžiojo karo muziejaus sodelyje skambės kariljonistų iš viso pasaulio atliekami kūriniai. Tarp jų – ne tik klasika, populiariosios muzikos fragmentai, bet ir lietuvių bei ukrainiečių liaudies dainos, Holiv...
Chiune Sugihara
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Kauno centre šeštadienį atidengiama skulptūra Japonijos diplomatui Chiunei Sugiharai, kurio išduotos vizos Kaune Antrojo pasaulinio karo metais išgelbėjo tūkstančius žydų.
Several dozen Lithuanian lawmakers registered an initiative last week to declare 2020 the year of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.
More and more tourists find Baltic countries appealing when they are choosing their new destinations. Lithuania sees the growing number of foreigners that are interested in seeing not only the capital of the country Vilnius but also the beauty of the rest of Lithuania.
Šį pavasarį sukanka lygiai 160 metų, kai Lietuvoje pradėtas statyti geležinkelis. Ta proga Kauno geležinkelio stotyje š. m. balandžio 5 d. atidaryta istorinių fotografijų paroda „ Kauno geležinkelio stotis 1859-2019: nuo geležinkelio atsiradimo iki europinės vėžės „Rail Baltica“.
Japonijoje Kazuyuki Shimada buvo smulkus verslininkas, turėjęs tris kirpimo salonus Kiote ir Šigoje. Dirbdamas grožio industrijoje, vyras susidomėjo finansais ir informacinėmis technologijomis. Po kelių metų nutarė, jog laisvalaikio hobį reikia paversti pagrindine gyvenimo veikla – taip atsidūrė lie...
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently visiting Japan, on Thursday honored the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust, and also paid respect to victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is leaving for Japan on Monday and will seek to strengthen trade and business ties.
The youngest son of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, discovered in the Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCSA) that some of the so-called "visas for life" issued by his father were forgeries.
Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas is launching on Monday a week of events to commemorate Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.
Visiting King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Friday unveil in Kaunas, Lithuanian second-largest city, a symbolic light monument to Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk who saved Jews during WWII.
A light installation is planned in Lithuania's second city Kaunas to honor Jan Zwartendijk, honorary consul of the Netherlands who rescued Jews in the interwar period.
Sugihara Foundation – Diplomats for Life has named Lithuanian writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius as the Person of Tolerance of 2017, the Vytautas Magnus University said on Friday.
Chiune Sugihara’s legacy continues to live on, reverberating in new culturally significant and socially beneficial ways.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday went to Lithuania's second city Kaunas on Sunday to pay tribute to the memory of World War II-era diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is coming to Lithuania this weekend to meet with the country's top officials and pay tribute to the memory of war-time Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews in Kaunas.
Lithuania is constantly defending itself against accusations or dubious statements that Lithuanians collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust. At the same time it's usually in the archives of historians where information is discovered about Lithuanians who, before anybody else, were opening up a ...
On April 25, 2017, the Sugihara Group for Kaunas-Japan Relations Development was established. Soon to be approved by decree of the Mayor of Kaunas, the main purpose of the group is to bring together a wide range of organisations and Kaunas residents who together contribute towards positive relations...
In most parts of the world, starting a conversation with references to the weather is considered pretty banal. Not so in countries like Canada or Lithuania, where spring has been late to come.
Though unseasonably low temperatures and rain have dampened the springtime mood in Lithuania, many consider the blooming cherry blossoms at the Chiune Sugihara park in Vilnius to be a sign that spring has arrived in Lithuania.