On May 28, 2024 Rector Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov received the newly appointed Director of the Kyrgyz-Japanese Center (KRJC), Mr. Maruyama Hideaki. During the meeting, further cooperation between KRJC and KNU was discussed. Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov warmly congratulated Mr. Maruyama Hideaki on his new position and said, “The work plan of the Japanese center has been approved. All that work is being done accordingly. We will continue with that plan. We together will try not to deviate from that plan. In addition, the Japanese Center helped us a lot last year: it repaired the heating system of the 7th building and landscaped the area around the building. We are grateful and we expect good, new directions in our cooperation,” he said.

The newly appointed Director of the Kyrgyz-Japanese Center Mr. Maruyama Hideaki thanked the Rector for his time and said, “I worked as the head of the JICA office in Kyrgyzstan in 2008-2012. Now I have returned to Kyrgyzstan. I myself asked to be appointed to Kyrgyzstan and was happy when the decision was made. I would like to continue the activities between KRJC and KNU. I want to do things that bring good results not only to the Japanese center, but also to the KNU side,” he said.

The meeting was also attended by Bakyt Keldibekov, Director of the Department for International Cooperation and Relations, and Almazbek Azimov, Director of the Kyrgyz-Japanese Center from the Kyrgyz side.