Ambassador Kovač visited the National Archives of Japan, where she talked with the President of the Archives Kaoru Kamato about establishing cooperation, especially in the context of marking the 140th anniversary of friendship between Serbia and Japan. They emphasized the importance of archival material in nurturing the tradition of bilateral relations and deepening cultural and historical ties between the two peoples.

 

Mr. Kamato showed Ambassador Kovač the documents related to Serbia and the former Yugoslavia that are archived in this institution, including reports on Serbia in the First World War, details of SFRY President Josip Broz Tito's visit to Japan in 1968, and photographs taken during a visit to Belgrade of the then director of the Agency for Science and Technology of Japan, and later the Prime Minister of Japan and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Eisaku Sato. Ambassador Kovač also visited the permanent exhibition of the Archive, which contains the most important documents of modern Japanese history.