TIMES GALLERY – NOVEMBER 2024 - Sustainable Japan by The Japan Times

Ahmed Khaleel, the Maldives’ former ambassador to Japan, is conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star at an Imperial Palace ceremony. | Embassy of the Republic of Maldives

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba receives a recommendation for prompt action on a Japan-Mercosur economic partnership agreement from Japan-Brazil Business Council chairpersons on Nov. 5 | Embassy of Brazil

The Indonesian band J-Rocks lights up the evening for an audience of 50,000 at the Indonesia-Japan Friendship Festival 2024, held at Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park on Oct. 19 and 20. | Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia

Ambassador Shorna-Kay Richards, Photographic Society of Japan Chair- man Yoshikazu Aoki, and Foreign Ministry director Yasushi Noguchi opens Jamaica-Japan Photo One Love exhibition. | Embassy of Jamaica

Representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of Albania participate in Expat Expo Tokyo 2024. | Embassy of the Republic of Albania

American Chamber of Commerce in Japan President Victor Osumi presents the ACCJ Person of the Year Award to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Oct. 23. | Photo credit: LIFE.14 | ACCJ

Ambassador Aleksandra Kovac (front left) joins the winners, contestants, jury members and sponsors of the First Serbian Language Speech Contest in Japan, held at the Embassy of Serbia on Nov. 9. | Embassy of the Republic of Serbia