Tokyo: Kakizoma cultural event organized by embassies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

Fifteen students from various elementary and high schools in Tokyo who are trained by the famous calligrapher Kasen Wada, the head of the calligraphy school "Kasen Education" attended the event, accompanied by their parents.

 In her greeting, the Ambassador Aleksandra Kovač emphasized the significance of connecting different peoples and countries through the long Japanese tradition of Kakizoma. She pointed out that the 140-year-long friendship between Serbia and Japan commenced precisely by the exchange of handwritten letters between the two sovereigns and expressed the hope that such forms of cultural cooperation would continue in the future.

Thereafter, the students and  the audience from both embassies participated in a calligraphy demonstration, after which Kasen Wada presented the writing of traditional New Year's messages as well as the lines of the haiku song by the late singer-songwriter Jadranka Stojaković, who, after having spent 20 years in Japan, lived in the Republic Srpska until her death in 2016.