DUSHANBE, June 9, 2014, Asia-Plus – Japan’s Ambassador to Tajikistan, Mr. Hiroyuki Imahashi, has donated more than 700 books and magazines as well as several paintings to the National Library of Tajikistan.

Speaking at the ceremony, the National Library Director Nosirjon Salimov expressed deep gratitude to Ambassador Imahashi and noted that cooperation between the two countries in that direction would continue in the future as well.

The donation reportedly included fiction, children’s literature books and books on medicine.  There are also books ob history, geography and political science, a source at the National Library said.

On this occasion, the Corner of Japan’s Literature has opened at the Foreign Literature Department of the Library.