Balgarianovinite.com The Japanese-language issue of BTA’s LIK magazine, which came out in April and was presented at the Bulgarian pavilion of Expo 2025 in Osaka on May 18, showcases the remarkable history of Bulgaria’s presence at world expositions, said BTA Director General Kiril Valchev on Friday, meeting with Japanese-language students from Sofia University.
Valchev recalled that the magazine’s presentation in Osaka was attended by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, who was visiting Expo 2025.
He noted that this is the first periodical ever to present Bulgaria comprehensively in Japanese. “It was a huge challenge for us. Do you know what it is like to publish something you cannot understand at all?” said Valchev. He noted that BTA used two excellent translators for the project, but even so, the text was sent to the Bulgarian Embassy in Tokyo, where their technical staff, who are Japanese, read it to verify its accuracy. The original translation was made by Prof. Nako Stefanov and an expert recommended by him, Petko Slavov.
“Your colleagues in Japan told me that they will use the three versions of this LIK issue – English, Japanese and Bulgarian – to study Bulgarian. I understand that you are doing something similar here with the Japanese-language version,” noted Valchev.
He said that the remarkable history of Bulgaria’s presence at world expos, recounted in LIK, began in the mid-19th century. Perhaps the most famous story concerns Bulgaria’s participation at the 1893 Chicago expo in the United States, which author Aleko Konstantinov attended. He documented both his journey and the Bulgarian pavilion at the expo.
The BTA Director General invited the students present at the meeting to work at the national news agency, outlining the opportunities for development in various BTA departments.
LIK editor-in-chief Georgi Lozanov said that during the communist era, Bulgaria had a limited set of instruments to maintain intercultural communication with the Western world. LIK was one of those few instruments. And now, with its April 2025 issue, the magazine is performing the same mission of intercultural communication, Lozanov said.
Stela Zhivkova, chief assistant professor at Sofia University’s Centre for Eastern Languages and Studies, said BTA did something that the Centre could only dream of. The news agency made in-depth research on world expos and Bulgaria’s involvement in them. “What is even better, it is translated into Japanese, and we can learn from it how to do Bulgarian-Japanese translation,” the scholar said. Japanese-Language Issue of BTA’s LIK Magazine Presented to Sofia University Students 2025 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2025-12-19 18:25:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
