Նկարագրություն: Diana Agabeg was born in Rangoon, Burma on October 17, 1859, the youngest of seven children, her father immigrated as a young boy from New Julfa, and her mother from Shiraz, Iran. Her parents were first-generation Indian Armenians Diana’s formal education was at a convent school in Calcutta. Diana was fluent in Armenian, English, and Hindi. In 1890, Diana Agabeg Apcar moved to Japan with her husband and stayed there until her death. Lots of things changed for Diana, after the massacre of approximately 30,000 Armenians in 1909, in Adana, Turkey. She started to focus her energy outward, calling attention to the plight of the Armenians. She studied history and current affairs and formulated a picture of the political powers of the time and their manipulations. This brilliant-minded woman worked tirelessly for justice for the oppressed, both through her writings and humanitarian efforts. Diana personally supported hundreds of destitute refugees, from the crumbling Ottoman and Russian empires, after an arduous journey across Siberia to Japan. She housed, fed, and secured documentation for hundreds of destitute souls escaping genocide, starvation, and the Bolshevik revolution, overcame societal taboos and pressures of the time to become a respected leader in a male-dominated world, as she challenged the motives and decisions of major political powers. The culmination moment in Diana`s career was her appointment as “Honorary Consul to Japan” from the Armenian foreign minister Hamo Ohanjanian in 1920, a unique recognition of her accomplishments.