HYDERABAD:The Area Study Centre for Fareast and Southeast Asia University of Sindh Jamshoro signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Pakistan-Japan Intellects Forum to
introduce a Japanese language course for the students of the varsity.
The Director Area Study Center Dr. Mukesh Kumar Khatwani and Chairman Pakistan-Japan Intellects Forum Iqbal Barma signed the MoU in presence of the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro and Consul in Karachi Toshikazu Isomura at a simple
but impressive ceremony on Tuesday.
According to MoU, the Japanese language course will be started in Area Study Center University of Sindh Jamshoro from February 2022 with assignment of instructors from Consulate General of Japan in Karachi.
Speaking on the occasion, the Vice Chancellor said the language is an important source of friendship through which business affairs and relationships can be established with people from different countries of the world and launching the Japanese language course will help in building strong relations among the people of Pakistan and Japan.
He said that whether the language was pedagogical, technical or scientific and the people must learn more languages for communication adding that there were two types of language- one was mother tongue and the other one was need based lingo.
He said that those who knew more languages were valued and counted as an additional qualification; therefore, learning the Japanese language will pave the way for youth to get a number of academic, research and employment opportunities in Japan.
The Consul General of Japan in Karachi Toshikazu Isomura said that Pakistan and Japan were enjoying fraternal relations and after signing MoU with the University of Sindh, classes for learning Japanese language would be started from February 2022.
He said that by learning Japanese language, Pakistani youth would be able to take advantage of higher education, research and employment opportunities in Japanese universities and Japan.
Earlier Director Area Study Center Dr. Mukesh Kumar Khatwani welcomed the guests and said that he was appreciative to the Vice Chancellor for encouraging him to conduct academic and research programs at the Area Study Center and for setting up various corners.