On March 12, 2022, the 24th Kazakhstan Japanese Language Speech Contest was held under the joint sponsorship of the Kazakhstan Japanese Language Teachers Association and the Embassy of Japan in Kazakhstan. Dr. NINOMIYA Takashi, Almaty Office coordinator attended the competition as one of the judges, and University of Tsukuba provided prizes to the participants of the speech contest in the form of sponsorship. Fourteen students from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, and the Kazakhstan-Japan Center for Human Development participated in the contest and delivered speeches in Japanese.
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(Contributors: Takashi Ninomiya, Kadikova Samal)