Ambassador Aleksandra Kovač, Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Teiji Hayashi and Chief Operating Officer, Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Yukihiko Nunomura, participated at the Appreciation Ceremony hosted by Minister of Tourism Hon Edmund Bartlett in collaboration with the Embassy of Jamaica in Tokyo for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Volunteer Ms. Tijana Kawashima Stojkovic, half Serbian half Japanese, who helped Jamaican athlete Hansle Parchment to reach the venue and win the gold medal.
We appreciate very much the effort of Ambassador of Jamaica Ms. Shorna Kay Marie Richards for extending the invitation to join the event. We are happy that Tijana’s selfless act of solidarity brought our countries even closer together.
