On December 03, 2024, a ceremonial meeting of the Academic Council at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University was held on the occasion of the initiation ceremony into honorary professors of Okabe Yoshihiko - Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Kobe (Japan), Professor, Director of the International Exchange Center at Kobe Gakuin University, Japanese scholar on Ukrainian studies, public figure.

The decision to award Okabe Yoshihiko the title of “Honorary Professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University” was made by the Academic Council of the University (Protocol No. 9 of 20.06.2024) for his significant personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian-Japanese relations, educational, scientific and cultural cooperation between Ukraine and Japan, and popularization of the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian studies in Japan.
Honorary Professor of the University Okabe Yoshihiko delivered a lecture “Unknown Pages of Ukrainian-Japanese Relations” in Ukrainian.

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