Ambassador's remarks

The Japan-Jordan Academic Society (JJAS), the alumni association of Japanese universities’ graduates, held its 6th annual gathering on Saturday 20 March at the residence of His Excellency Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Tetsuo Shioguchi.

Twenty graduates and five newly scholarship granted students who will start their postgraduate studies in Japan this year in addition to those who are associated with Japanese language learning and education in Jordan and some media personnel, are expected attend the gathering .

The Japan-Jordan Academic Society was established in 2004 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Jordan which started in1954. The Society aims at promoting a good relation between Jordan and Japan, providing facilities for social and cultural activities and promoting scientific technologies education and cultural exchange between the two countries as well as providing the opportunities for members to meet with their counterparts in other organizations and institutions in both countries. 

Having shared with the Jordanian people the belief that the development of human resources is the key to national well-being, Japan has been offering undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship programmes to Jordanians since 1975. Since then, the number of Jordanians granted scholarship to Japan grew to more than seventy. Many have come back to Jordan to assume outstanding positions as doctors, leaders, experts in their fields and promising academics, while a number are currently pursuing their undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Japan. The embassy will see three new scholarship grantees off to Japan in April 2009 and another two in October 2009. The embassy invites application for its scholarship programmes in April of each year.