Foreign Minister’s Commendation for FY 2021

Mrs. Hasparina binti Abdul Ghafar, Head of Japanese Language and Cultural Center, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) was honoured the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for her significant contribution to promote Japanese language education under the Look East Policy (LEP), which will be celebrating the 40th anniversary in 2022.

She was a Japanese language lecturer in the program for study in KOSEN (a 5-year integrated engineering education in Japan) for 11 years. She has also been teaching in the  twinning program, a Yen Loan project conducted by the Malaysian government to support study of Malaysian students, for 6 and a half years.

Mrs. Hasparina has served as the Japanesel ecturer for more than 7 years at MJIIT, the culmination of long-lasting bilateral cooperation under the LEP. MJIIT is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.