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Celebrating Bonsai

and Japanese

Culture

in Lithuania

EBA & ESA Convention and IV Middle and bottom; View into
Japanese Culture Festival at the bonsai exhibition from the
gallery. View into the bonsai
Vilnius, Lithuania, September, exhibition.
2015

By 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-
Tnius, 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
influence and Russian occupation. Until 1990 it was
one of the states of the Soviet Union, after which it
became a member of the European Union and NATO.
Its currency is the Euro.
The location of this event in North-Eastern Europe
was reflected in the composition of participating
countries of the convention where most exhibitors

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