Japan–Lithuania relations the wake of the Nazi invasion. Up to 10,000 refugees were saved from this action. There is a significant close partnership between the city of Kuji and Klaipėda, established in 1989. Japan "de facto" re-recognized Lithuania on September 6, 1991 and a month later diplomatic relations were re-established between these countries. In 1997 the Embassy of Japan was established in Vilnius and in 1998 the Embassy of Lithuania was established in Tokyo. In March 2016, Japan and Lithuania agreed to cooperate on nuclear safety. In August 2016, Training Squadron vessels of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force "Kashima", "Asagiri" and "Setoyuki"
Close to the Edge it does relate to the dreams of clear summer days". He claimed "khatru" translates to "as you wish" in the Yemeni dialect of Arabic, but had no idea what the word meant at the time until he asked someone to look up its meaning. When it came to recording Howe's ending guitar solo, one experiment involved Offord placing one microphone by the amplifier and having his assistant swing a second microphone around the room to create a Doppler effect. "Close to the Edge" was packaged with a gatefold sleeve designed and illustrated by Roger Dean, who had also designed the