Japanese ambassador hosts send-off party for JDS recipients

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, July 28: Kikuta Yutaka, ambassador of Japan to Nepal, hosted a send-off party for Nepal's civil servants who will be studying in Japan under the project for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) at his official residence today.

Speaking on the occasion, Ambassador Kikuta congratulated the successfully selected JDS fellows and expressed his hope that they would enjoy a good learning environment in Japan.

"Investment in human resource development is similar to building foundation for development. I believe, by offering JDS we are also contributing to development of Nepal. Moreover, as education is mainstay of people-to-people relation between the two countries, JDS will surely strengthen such a relation," said the ambassador.

Ambassador Kikuta also encouraged the JDS fellows to gain a lot of knowledge and experience as well as deepen their understanding about Japan, and wished them a great success.

The JDS offers Nepal's young government officials two-year Master's Degree courses and three-year Doctoral level courses in reputed Japanese universities. This year, a total of 22 government officials- 20 studying for Master's Degree and 2 for PhD-will leave Nepal next month to obtain their degrees in Japan.