Japan-Cambodia Kizuna Festival 2022 to Take Place This Weekend

The 11th Japan-Cambodia Kizuna Festival will be held this week, from Feb. 17 to 20, at the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Centre (CJCC) and the Embassy of Japan in Phnom Penh as well as online, according to the embassy’s press release.

Organised by the Embassy of Japan, in collaboration with the CJCC and the Japan Foundation Asia Centre, the 11th Japan-Cambodia Kizuna Festival will be themed “Kizuna is always with you”, it pointed out.

Under this theme, it continued, the festival will bring the participants on-site and online event with new normal due to the situation of COVID-19.

The festival will feature workshops and webinars related to art, education, taste of Japanese food and dessert, trial of traditional Japanese cloth of “Yukata”, folding paper “Origami”, Khmer craft class and calligraphy “Sho-do” as well as other various activities, the same source added.

Japan-Cambodia Kizuna Festival is an annual event organised since 2012 for the purpose of presenting the culture of Japan and Cambodia and promoting further exchanges between the people of the two countries.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press