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Japan–Yugoslavia Relations
Japan and Yugoslavia (both the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) enjoyed friendly relations until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992. Japan appreciated Socialist Yugoslavia's independent Non-Aligned Movement, non-aligned foreign policy stance. The representation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Tokyo was opened in 1924 while the agreement of trade between the two countries was signed in Vienna in 1925. Yugoslav honorary consulate in Osaka was opened in 1929. Yugoslavia was invited, but did not participate, in the Treaty of San Francisco, San Francisco Peace Conference in 1951 as Belgrade believed that there is no any open issue between the two states and that the state of war can be ended by simple exchange of notes without any reparations. Two countries reestablished their bilateral relations in 1952 and Japan opened its representation in Belgrade that same year. Yugoslavia was the first communist country to establish diplomatic relations with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Skopje Earthquake
The 1963 Skopje earthquake () was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia (present-day North Macedonia), then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured between 3,000 and 4,000 and left more than 200,000 people homeless. About 80 percent of the city was destroyed. Facts The earthquake, which measured 6.1 on the moment magnitude scale, occurred on July 26, 1963, at 04:17 UTC (5:17 am Time zone, local time) in Skopje, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, then part of SFR Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia). The tremor lasted for 20 seconds and was felt mostly along the Vardar River, Vardar River Valley. There were also smaller aftershocks until 5:43. Aftermath Following the earthquake, Josip Broz Tito, president of SFR Yugoslavia, sent a message of condolences to the Socialist Republic of Macedonia before visiting the city personally later on. Within a few days after the earthquake took place, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan–Montenegro Relations
Japan–Montenegro relations refers to the bilateral relations Bilateralism is the conduct of political, economic, or cultural relations between two sovereign states. It is in contrast to unilateralism or multilateralism, which is activity by a single state or jointly by multiple states, respectively. When ...hip between Japan and Montenegro. Japan recognised Montenegro on 16 June 2006, stating then that "the policy of the Government of Japan [is] to attach importance to the peace and stability of Western Balkans countries including Montenegro". History During the Russo-Japanese War, volunteers from Montenegro were encouraged to fight in the Russian Army in Manchuria. However, Montenegro was not mentioned in the 1905 peace treaty and List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity, a technical state of war was presumed to exist between the two countries. In 2006, Japan made the gesture of recognising Montenegrin independence following its secession from Serbia and declared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan–Kosovo Relations
Japan–Kosovo relations are foreign relations between Japan and Kosovo. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, and Japan recognized it on March 18, 2008. According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan and Kosovo established diplomatic relations on February 25, 2009.Japan–Kosovo Relations (Basic Data) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan History , the Japanese-born , issued an offi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia–Japan Relations
Croatia and Japan maintain diplomatic relations through mutual embassies. History The two countries established diplomatic relations with each other on March 5, 1993. The embassy of Croatia in Tokyo was founded in September 1993 while the Japanese embassy in Zagreb was founded in February 1998. During World War II, the Empire of Japan maintained an embassy in Zagreb and recognized the Independent State of Croatia, which was a puppet government of Nazi Germany; they were all part of the Axis powers. Military ties Croatia officially joined NATO on April 1, 2009. Since the accession to the military alliance, Croatia and Japan share the same ally, the United States. A training ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) JDS Kashima, JDS ''Kashima'' visited to Split, Croatia, Split, the second-largest city in Croatia for celebrating 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between both countries in September 2013. This is the first visit ever to Croatia by a Japanese nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneko Kondo-Kavese
was a Japanese and Slovenian nurse, promoter of Japanese culture in Yugoslavia. Life and work Kondo-Kavese Tsuneko was born in Gifu, Japan, a daughter of court architect Kondo-Kavese Kagijiro. After the Russo-Japanese War, she relocated with her family to Beijing, where she studied medicine, though she did not graduate. In the International Club, she met Ivan Skušek, a Slovenian officer (first class superior naval inspector) of the Austro-Hungarian Navy who was stationed aboard cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth. The couple married in Beijing and in 1920 the family (couple, her son and daughter from first marriage) left China and moved to Ljubljana, where she soon learned Slovenian. She served as head nurse for the Red Cross and became an active council member. She received the Red Cross' highest award in 1962. She also promoted cultural exchange between Japan and Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia And The Non-Aligned Movement
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, an international groupation established to maintain independence of countries beyond Eastern Bloc, Eastern and Western Bloc from the major Cold War powers. Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, hosted the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, First Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in September 1961 and the 9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Ninth Summit in September 1989. Non-alignment was a cornerstone of Yugoslavia's Cold War foreign policy and ideology. As the only socialist state in Europe outside the Eastern Bloc, and one with Yugoslavia and the European Economic Community, strong economic ties to Western Europe, Yugoslavia pursued a careful policy of Balancing (international relations), balancing and equidistance between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. This stance, together with active nonaligned multilateralism, was seen as a collective safeguard of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ''ad hoc'' court located in The Hague, Netherlands. It was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 827, Resolution 827 of the United Nations Security Council, which was passed on 25 May 1993. It had jurisdiction over four clusters of crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The maximum sentence that it could impose was life imprisonment. Various countries signed agreements with the United Nations to carry out custodial sentences. A total of 161 persons were indicted; the final indictments were issued in December 2004, the last of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikako Taya
Chikako (written: , or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Chikako, Princess Kazu *Fujiwara no Chikako (藤原親子), Japanese noblewoman and waka poet *, Japanese snowboarder *, Japanese female volleyball player *Chikako Mese American mathematician *Minamoto no Chikako was the daughter of Kitabatake Morochika, and Imperial consort to Emperor Go-Daigo. She had earlier been Imperial consort to Go-Daigo's father, Emperor Go-Uda. She was the mother of Prince Morinaga (1308 – August 12, 1335) was a Japanese p ... (源 親子), was the daughter of Kitabatake Morochika *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese women's professional shogi player *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese badminton player *, Japanese mangaka *, Japanese filmmaker and video artist See also * 4577 Chikako, a main-belt asteroid {{given name Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia). The conflicts both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia, which began in mid-1991, into six independent countries matching the six Republics of Yugoslavia, entities known as republics that had previously constituted Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and North Macedonia, Macedonia (now Macedonia naming dispute, called North Macedonia). SFR Yugoslavia's constituent republics declared independence due to rising nationalism. Unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries led to the wars. While most of the conflicts ended through peace accords that involved full international recognition of new states, they resulted in a massive number of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Michiko
is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. She was Empress of Japan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan reigning from 7 January 1989 to 30 April 2019. Michiko married Crown Prince Akihito and became Crown Princess of Japan in 1959. She was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family. She has three children with her husband: Naruhito, Fumihito, and Sayako. Her elder son, Naruhito, is the current emperor. As crown princess and later as empress consort, she has become the most visible and widely travelled imperial consort in Japanese history. Upon Akihito's abdication, Michiko received the new title of , or Empress Emerita. Early life and education Michiko Shōda was born on 20 October 1934 at the University of Tokyo Hospital in Bunkyō, Tokyo, the second of four children born to , president and later honorary chairman of Nisshin Flour Milling Company, and his wife, . Raised in Tokyo and in a cultured family, she grew up receiving a careful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akihito
Akihito (born 23 December 1933) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 1989 until 2019 Japanese imperial transition, his abdication in 2019. The era of his rule was named the Heisei era, Heisei being an expression of achieving peace worldwide. Born in 1933, Akihito is the fifth child and first son of Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa and Empress Nagako, Empress Kōjun. During the Second World War, he moved out of Tokyo with his classmates and remained in Nikkō until 1945. In 1952, his Coming-of-Age ceremony and investiture as crown prince were held, and he began to undertake official duties in his capacity as crown prince. The next year, he made his first journey overseas and represented Japan at the coronation of Elizabeth II in London. He completed his university education in 1956. In April 1959, he married Empress Michiko, Michiko Shōda, a commoner; it was the first imperial wedding to be televised in Japan, drawing about 15 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
