The 2026 Japanese Ambassador’s Cup Open Shogi Tournament!

🇯🇵 🇺🇦 The Ukrainian-Japanese Center at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted the qualifying round of the 2026 Japanese Ambassador’s Cup Open Shogi Tournament—an ancient Japanese intellectual game that combines logic, strategic thinking, and philosophy.

Partners Visit to Launch an Educational Program on Humanitarian Demining

Andriy Shysholin, Vice Rector for International Relations at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI); Oksana Vovk, Director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Energy Conservation and Energy Management at KPI; and Kateryna Lugovska, Director of the Ukrainian-Japanese Center at KPI, met on December 16 with Mykhailo Turyanytsia, a communications specialist at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Mykhailo Turyanytsia, and a journalist from the Kyodo News Agency, Narumi Tateda (Japan).

Charity concert by Japanese virtuoso pianist Tempei Nakamura

An evening of gratitude, strength, and music. The Igor Sikorsky KPI Center for Culture and Arts hosted a charity concert by Japanese virtuoso pianist Tempei Nakamura, a musician who is visiting Ukraine and our university for the third time during the war.

Ukrainian coin shines on global stage

Nataliia Fandikova, the Head of the Laboratory at the Department of Graphic Arts of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, and a renowned Ukrainian artist, won the International Coin Design Competition, staged by the Japan Mint.

The beauty of Japanese oshibana art is now at our university!

🌺 The Ukrainian-Japanese Center of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute opened an author's exhibition of works “In love with oshibana” - the ancient art of samurai who found peace in unity with nature between battles, collecting flowers and creating elegant compositions. 

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