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Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. *Photo from Wikipedia February 17 is the day Kosovo declares independence as the Republic of Kosovo. In antiquity, Dardania covered the area, which formed part of the larger Roman province of Moesia in the 1st century AD. In the Middle Ages, the region became part of the Bulgarian Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Serbian medieval states. It was then conquered by the Ottoman Empire an exact 70 years after the Battle of Kosovo. In 1913 the Kosovo Vilayet was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbia, which in 1918 became part of Yugoslavia. Kosovo gained

Interview by Isao Tokuhashi Edited by Jennifer A. Hoff info@myeyestokyo.com   Milly Nakai (Brazil) Multilingual interpreter and visual-media translator Early October 2017 – We visited a panel discussion organized by the “Global Communication Arts Institute” (GCAI). We met four women working in areas such as entrepreneurship, flower arrangement, and travel guide interpreting, who talked about how they have expanded the scope of their unique activities by sharing information overseas. One of the panelists was Ms. Milly Nakai, an interpreter and translator who speaks four languages, including Portuguese and Japanese, to bring voices from around the world to Japan. Born in Sao

Tuvaluan children. *Photo from Wikipedia October 1 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tuvalu from United Kingdom in 1978. In 1568, Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to sail through the archipelago. In 1819, the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. The islands came under Britain’s sphere of influence in the late 19th century, when each of the Ellice Islands was declared a British Protectorate between October 9 and 16, 1892. The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate from 1892 to 1974. A referendum