Yasuhiro Nakasone is from Takasaki,
Japan, well known for his friendship with Ronald Reagan former president of the United States(US) their friendship was widely called the‘Ron and Yasu' friendship.
Yasuhiro Nakasone served as the Prime Minister(PM) of Japan from 1982 to
1987, he was also the President of the Liberal Democratic Party(LDP), Japan and a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years.
At The International Poetry Translation Workshop- small and big languages, organised by Center for Slovenian Literature in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers Slovenia 2010, Mamta has translated poems by poets from six languages: Antoine Cassar(Malta), Stanislav Lvovsky(Russia),
Veronika Dintinjana(Slovenia), Yasuhiro Yotsumoto(Japan), Yolanda Castano(Spain,
Galicia) and Xi Chuan(China); into Kannada, while her poems in Kannada were translated into all these languages.