Okayama University concluded a university-level agreement with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) on April 18.

Seven people from UPM including the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dato' Dr. Mohd Fauzi Hj. Ramlan, and ten people from our university including Vice-President, Dr. Masaru Araki (Executive Director of Social Responsibility and International Affairs) and Dr. Hiroshi Kanzaki (Dean of Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science) – a total of seventeen people attended the signing ceremony.

Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dato' Dr. Mohd Fauzi Hj. Ramlan, and Vice-President, Dr. Masaru Araki, sign the agreement.

Vice-President Araki addressed, “We would like to further promote interactions in all fields as well as the agriculture field which we cultivated for years. Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dato' Dr. Mohd Fauzi Hj. Ramlan, said, “We would like to further deepen the current cooperative relationship and look forward to developing interactions in new fields through this agreement.

UPM and our university have nurtured exchanges through the project of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for five years from 1990, and Faculty of Agriculture concluded a faculty-level agreement in 2000. This time the faculty-level agreement is upgraded to the university-level agreement, and our interaction is expected to be further facilitated.