【Photo Diary】 (1) Visit to Mongolia at the Invitation of President Khurelsukh

Published on August 10, 2023

I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my visit to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from July 6 to 8, 2023, in my capacity as chairman of The Nippon Foundation at the invitation of President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh.
 

[July 6, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia]

Flying over the Mongolian grassland shortly before arriving in Ulaanbaatar en route from Tokyo.

 

Greeting me at Chinggis Khaan International Airport were Mongolian ambassador to the United States Batbayar Ulziidelger (left) and Odbayar Erdenetsogt, presidential foreign policy advisor (right). President Khurelsukh was gracious enough to instruct Ambassador Batbayar to come home to sit in on at his luncheon with me.
The envoy is an old friend of mine and once served as executive director of Vansemberuu-Mongolia, an NGO that spearheaded a project to promote the use of traditional medicines by distributing “family pharmacy kits” to provide safe, effective, accessible health care to Mongolia’s nomadic people.

 

Arriving at the hotel at 11:30 p.m., I was met by members of Vansemberuu-Mongolia. Due to a massive traffic jam caused by flooding, it took 3 hours to reach the hotel.

 

[July 7, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia]

Visiting Mongol Kosen College of Technology, one of the three such institutions The Nippon Foundation helped establish in the North Asian nation to train top-level engineers.
The Kosen colleges were modeled on some 50 such institutions in Japan that feature a unique and successful higher-education system involving a five-year engineering course and an additional two-year advanced course.

 

I was recognized as one of the three persons credited with helping found the Kosen colleges in Mnogolia.

 

Interviewed by TV9 Mongolia on the foundation’s activities in the country.

 

With Mr. Ganbayar Ganbold, Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Sports.

(To be continued)

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