14 September 2011

The Krasnodar Krai Kaizen Center, created with the support and financial backing of Oleg Deripaska’s Volnoe Delo Foundation, has announced the winners of the Japanese language programme grant. On September 14 the five grant recipients attended an award ceremony at the center – and their very first lesson on Japan.

Selection for the Japanese language program is conducted among schoolchildren and students of Kuban universities and is based on their academic performance, involvement in school and regional competitions, their interest in Japanese culture, art, anime. The contestants were also asked to write an essay on how they see themselves in the future and how they are planning to use the knowledge of the Japanese language in their profession.

Lessons will take place twice a week, an intensive program that will prepare the students for the Noreku Siken Japanese language exam by June 2012.

A group of students from the Kuban State Agricultural University are also studying Japanese at the Kaizen Center. Upon completion of their course the university students will go on to internships at “Kuban” Agroholding, and after that – to a two-month internship at agricultural businesses in Japan.