VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY JAPAN RUSSIA WITH THE RUSSIAN MEDAL OF
THE FRIENDSHIP EXCELLENTLY








TOKYO, 5 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Wjatscheslaw Bantin /. with the Russian medal of the friendship had
been distinguished the well-known Japanese society politician and
vice-president of the society Japan Russia Toshihara Okada.

The staaatliche honor of the Russian federation was presented to
Toshihara Skade by the Botschater Russia in Japan Alexander Panow.

Such humans such as Toshihara are today particularly necessarily,
since the Russian-Japanese relations achieves a qualigtaetiv new stage
of their development, said the director/conductor of the Russian
diplomatic mission with the presentation of the honor.

For his part Okada underlined that strengthening and development of
the Russian-Japanese relations corresponds to the interests of the two
states and an important contribution is for strengthening stability
and Prosperitaet in the region.

The president of the RF Vladimir Putin signed previous yearly a decree
in November over the honor Toshihara Okadas with the Russian medal of
the friendship for large contribution for the development of the
relations between Russia and Japan.