2017.28.04 Editors from The AZABU Community Paper Come to Photograph Embassy Building for Architectural Editorial Feature.

Editors from The AZABU Community Paper Come to Photograph Embassy Building for Architectural Editorial Feature.

April 28, 2017: It was a pleasure for the embassy to host members of “The AZABU” Editorial Office at the embassy. The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s embassy building was chosen to feature in The AZABU’s Architectural Building review which will be published in Japanese in the June Issue and in English for their September Issue.

Ms. Kyoko Ideishi, Ms. Yoshie Osawa, Ms. Misaho Kasho, Ms. Yukiko Takayanagi, and Ms. Emi Yonezawa – Contributing Editors for The AZABU Editorial Office, Ms. Shinobu Fujita – Editor for Kosaido Co. Ltd, and Ms. Emi Kumagai – photographer, were received at the embassy. The Public Relations Department and Administrative Affairs arranged for them to be given a presentation of the building’s inception by Mr. Kenichiro Murakami, Consultant with PDS and Kanto Construction.

At the time of the new building’s inception, Mr. Murakami consulted on behalf of the Embassy as acting Architectural and Engineering Advisor for the “Iikura Project”—the name of the building project. There was a brief question and answer period following the presentation, after which Mr. Murakami gave the guests a tour of the embassy building and grounds from an architectural point of view. After all the photos were taken of the buildings point of interest, the guests were treated to a full lunch of Afghan foods, prepared for their enjoyment by the embassy, and were joined by Mr. Basir Hamdard, First Secretary, and Mr. Asif Agah, Second Secretary.

Following the lunch, Dr. Bashir Mohabbat, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim, invited them into the Ambassador’s Office where he met with them and granted them an interview. They also were pointed out some of the features in the Ambassador’s Office unique to it. After this interview, the guests were given a tour by Mr. Ashraf Baburi of the ground’s gardens, complete with an old stone stairs scattered path believed to be from a Daimyô mansion compound on the property dating back to the Sankin Kotai of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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