Montenegro says Japan has recognized the Balkan country as an independent state, ending more than 100 years of a state of war. Akiko Yamanaka, Japan's deputy foreign minister and the prime minister's special envoy is scheduled to arrive in Podgorica next week to deliver a letter to Montenegrin officials declaring the war is over and Tokyo recognizes Montenegro as an independent state, Belgrade's B92 radio reported Friday. The countries have been in a technical state of war since the 1904-05 Russo-Japan War and Montenegro sided with Russia.
Japan has Montenegro (well, probably Serbia) to thank for the plant behind mosquito coils. I got that crucial piece of information from a bloke at the Serbia-Montenegro Embassy in Tokyo who used to pass on my mail. It seemed to get wrongly delivered there on occasion.
