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Celebrating Bonsai and Japanese Culture
in Lithuania
EBA & ESA Convention and IV Japanese Culture Festival at Vilnius, Lithuania, September, 2015
TBy Gudrun Benz, Germany
he 2015 European convention was held along with the IV Japanese Culture Fes- tival at the LITEXPO, an exhibition centre a little bit outside of the city centre of Vil- nius, the capital of Lithuania. Lithuania is
the biggest of the three Baltic states but it has only about 65,300 square kilometers and 3.5 million inhab- itants. It has a very rich history with strong German in uence and Russian occupation. Until 1990 it was one of the states of the Soviet Union, a er which it became a member of the European Union and NATO. Its currency is the Euro.
e location of this event in North-Eastern Europe was reflected in the composition of participating countries of the convention where most exhibitors
Middle and bottom; View into the bonsai exhibition from the gallery. View into the bonsai exhibition.
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