Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, at Ain Shams University, opened the activities of the Japanese Cultural Day, in the presence of Mr. Anodera Kento from the Japan Foundation in Cairo, Mr. Satoshi Kawakita, and a group of faculty staff, teaching assistants, and students, under the auspices of Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of the University, Prof. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, in cooperation with the Japanese Embassy in Cairo.

Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty, confirmed during her speech that the activities of the Japanese Cultural Day have been held annually in the Faculty of Al-Alsun since 2012, where students of the Japanese Language Department present many presentations to introduce Japanese culture.

This day helps to strengthen the spirit of cooperation among the students of the Japanese Language Department, as students from all academic teams participate in various activities and present many singing, theatrical, and show performances to introduce Japanese culture.

Students also display paper figures made in the Japanese style of Origami and teach visitors the art of Japanese calligraphy (Shodo) and write their names in Japanese.

During the preparations for the events of this special day, the students organize, manage and implement all the shows under the supervision of the faculty staff of the department, which helps them in acquiring various social skills through teamwork, adherence to training dates, and coordination between them and lectures, which also gives them the skill of organizing and managing time.

Through the preparations for this day, students apply practical skills such as translation and marketing, on a limited scale, such as translating Japanese songs that will be shown during the day into Arabic, dubbing cartoon clips from Arabic into Japanese, as well as publicity for the day through social media platforms, and all this earns them the necessary skills to enter the labor market competitions in various fields.

When Egyptian culture meets Japanese culture, we witness a festive birth with special characteristics. It is more like an intellectual, literary, and cultural forum that reflects the cohesion of the two great peoples in civilized creativity befitting the civilization of the Egyptian nation and the progress of the Japanese state.

She took this opportunity to address my children who are studying in the Japanese language department at the faculty and ask them to understand the spirit of Japanese culture and the morals of the Japanese people who command the respect of the whole world and to delve deeper into reading the Japanese heritage and mixing it with innovations from various writings so that it has the scientific vision that qualifies it to enter labor market competitions and compete with others in various fields.

At the outset, she would like to welcome Mr. Kento Onodera, Mr. Satoshi Kawakita from the Japan Foundation Cairo office, and all the distinguished guests who have honored us with their attendance.

While Mr. Anodera Kento, from the Japan Foundation in Cairo, confirmed that he had received the special program for the day in advance and found in it a lot of interesting shows related to Japan and Japanese culture, adding that the Japan Foundation enjoys good and close relations with the Faculty of Al-Alsun, which extends for many years, during which the Japan Foundation dispatched a professor Specialists to teach in the Japanese language department at the Faculty of Al-Alsun, as well as holding symposiums and seminars.

The Japan Foundation also had the honor of holding a Japanese language proficiency test in the halls of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, which was a great success.

He continued his speech by stressing that the Japan Foundation considers the Faculty of Al-Alsun as one of the successful partners and one of the effective partners in spreading Japanese culture and teaching and researching the Japanese language.

We extend our deepest thanks and gratitude to Professor. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun and Head of the Japanese Language Department, for her great efforts to spread and teach the Japanese language and culture.

Additionally that he came to Egypt in 2020 and touched the impressive level of students and graduates of the department in all fields.

Many of them whom I consider dear friends, I learned that the students of the Japanese Language Department are the ones who planned and implemented the cultural day at the Faculty of Al-Alsun held today, which is considered one of the distinguished opportunities for cultural communication between Egypt and Japan, and I would like to express my full thanks and support to the students of the department.

Today's activities witnessed the presentation of various theatrical and lyrical performances in Japanese.