The Minister of culture of Bulgaria said that it was difficult to count all results of the tireless work of Zunecharo Takeda, the Ambassador of Japan in Bulgaria, for the development of culture in Bulgaria.

So the Minister stated that the government of Japan had been spending 15 million BGN for a special donation program to keep cultural institutions in Bulgaria for the last 20 years.

His Imperial Highness Prince Akishino of Japan and Georgi Parvanov, the President of Bulgaria opened in May 2009 the replica and museum of the Thracian tomb at Alexandrovo, Bulgaria.

The were annual days of culture of Japan in Bulgaria, the days of the cinema and movies from Bulgaria in Japan, the exhibitions of the Cyrillic letters and the golden treasures of old Thrace in Japan.