Iran's historical city of Isfahan has opened its Japanese cultural festival during a ceremony held at the Museum of Contemporary Arts.
Japan's ambassador to Tehran Kinichi Komano, Isfahan Governor General Ali-Reza Zaker-Isfahani attended the event along with a number of officials, and Iranian and Japanese artists on January 19, 2012.
Talking during the opening ceremony, Komano thanked the Iranian people for sympathizing with the quake-stricken people of Fukushima after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.
Iran and Japan have rich cultures, and cultural and artistic exchanges can pave the path for developing mutual understanding between the two nations, Komano added.
Japanese traditional tea ceremony and calligraphy are part of the programs introduced during the week-long festival.
The Japanese embassy has also mounted photo exhibitions and displayed children's paintings on Japan's disaster-stricken areas of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japanese flower arrangement performances, Ikebana, has been presented along with different workshops.
Organized by the Japanese embassy in Iran and the country's Gun-en Artists group, the event will also be held at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran from January 25 to 29.
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