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English: The first draft, a sketch of Alfred Freddy Krupa proclamation and agenda from 1996. The original completed one in form of an artist statement or agenda has been dispatched to Tokyo in 1997 via Croatian Ministry of Culture, then to Vienna to the Embassy of Japan and then to Japanese Government in Tokyo. Based on that (and other elements like my university grades) Alfred Freddy Krupa have been granted scholarship for postgraduate research in Japan in 1998. Croatia and Japan established diplomatic relations in 1993 and Krupa was the very first Croatian painter to be granted by the Government of Japan. New Ink Art movement was for a long time considered a local or regional or Chinese ethnic phenomenon (some still thinks about it in that way). With these activities concerning Croatia-Japan in last decade of the 20th century, it has become the international movement.