A representative office of Nagaoka University has opened at TSTU.

A representative office of the Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT) opened at Tashkent State Technical University (TSTU).

On August 7, a ceremony to open the representative office of the Japanese Nagaoka University of Technology in Uzbekistan was held at TSTU. During this event, TSTU and the Japanese university also signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.

The event was attended by high-ranking officials, including Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Uzbekistan Kenji Hirata, Director of the JICA Representative Office in Uzbekistan Kan Sakai, President of NUT Shigeharu Kamado, Vice President for International Strategy Yukio Miyashita, and TSTU leadership, led by Rector and Academician Sadriddin Turabjanov.

In the conference hall of the Uzbek-Japanese Youth Innovation Center at TSTU, participants discussed the current status and prospects of cooperation between the two educational institutions. Particular attention was paid to academic exchanges between faculty and students, the development of joint educational programs, conducting research, participating in international grant projects, and fostering innovation.

Following the discussion, the official opening ceremony of the Nagaoka University of Technology representative office in Uzbekistan took place. The symbolic ribbon was cut by Kenji Hirata, Kan Sakai, Shigeharu Kamado, Sadriddin Turabjanov, and Saidmurod Niyozbekov. In accordance with Japanese tradition, the ceremony also included a ritual of painting the eyes of a Daruma doll.

The guests visited the Japan Career Academy, which operates at TSTU, and met with students. Yukio Miyashita, Vice President for International Strategy at Nagaoka University of Technology, and Shavkat Azimov, Vice Rector for International Relations and Innovation, delivered presentations on academic mobility, joint research, and promising areas of collaboration.

The opening of the representative office is expected to facilitate the further development of cooperation between TSTU and the Nagaoka University of Technology, the implementation of joint educational and scientific projects, the expansion of academic mobility, and the strengthening of cooperation between Uzbekistan and Japan.