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Speaker: Mr. Pablo Rodriguez Brizuela, Second Secretary, Argentine Embassy in Japan

Our image of Argentina is tango, wine and soccer, but this lecture introduced to us its history, culture and other features.
Argentina is the second largest country in South America next to Brazil, and Spanish is its official language. It is a multicultural, diversified nation mainly consisting of immigrants from Spain, Italy, neighboring countries in South America, and Asia.
It has seven world heritages, and we enjoyed in a slide show the pictures of Jesuit Guarani mission ruins, the Iguazu National Park that harbors the famous Iguazu Falls, Talampaya Natural Park with its abundant fossil beds, Los Glaciares (the Glaciers) National Park that displays the grandeur of nature, etc.
I thought that Argentina, which has assimilated various cultures, can be a good model in our modern world where coexistence of different cultures is highly desired. - reported by Moriaki Saito, PR Committee